While Neil Attends an Exciting and Competitive Football Game,his Heart

question 232

Multiple Choice

While Neil attends an exciting and competitive football game,his heart races and he sweats due to nervousness triggered by the _____ division of the autonomic nervous system.After the game,Neil's bodily arousal slowly returns to a resting state due to the _____ division of the autonomic nervous system.

• A)sympathetic;parasympathetic
• B)peripheral;somatic
• C)somatic;peripheral
• D)parasympathetic;sympathetic

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