Question

During emotional arousal, the ____ nervous system prepares the body for fight or flight and the ____ nervous system restores the body to homeostasis.

Answer 1

The answers in the given spaces above is sympathetic and parasympathetic. The sympathetic nervous system is the one responsible of having to activate the individual’s fight or flight response while the parasympathetic nervous system is responsible of having to do the things that the sympathetic nervous system can’t do.