When a parent observes the parent's young child heading toward a busy road the parent becomes stressed, feeling the parent's heart pounding, breathing heavily, and hands becoming wet with perspiration. Which physiological system is activated with the parent's "fight or flight" reaction to this danger?

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Moran

2 February, 10:35

When a parent observes the parent's young child heading toward a busy road the parent becomes stressed, feeling the parent's heart pounding, breathing heavily, and hands becoming wet with perspiration. Which physiological system is activated with the parent's "fight or flight" reaction to this danger?

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Khalil Pham · Answer 1

Sympathetic Nervous System

Explanation:

The sympathetic nervous system is the system that activates the fight or flight condition. Like other parts of the nervous system, the SNS operates through a series of neurons.

The sympathetic neurons are considered part of the peripheral nervous system. Even many lies under the CNS. Sympathetic neurons in the spinal cord communicate with the peripheral system. Prolonged activation elicits the release of adrenaline from the adrenaline cortex. It is a part of ANS also called involuntarily process. It is the condition of fight and flight. It directs the body's rapid involuntary response to the dangerous and stressful situation It doesn't stress the person when the danger has passed.