When Walking Home Alone Late One Night,you Are Startled by a Moving

question 301

Multiple Choice

When walking home alone late one night,you are startled by a moving shadow that you glimpse out of the corner of your eye.The _____ division of the autonomic nervous system mobilizes your body's defenses.When you see that the shadow is just the neighbor's cat,the _____ division begins to lessen your physiological arousal.

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

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