Question

Five-year-old Byron is Christmas shopping with his mother and siblings. When he looks around and realizes his mother is nowhere to be found, Byron's _____ nervous system activates the fight-or-flight response.

Answer 1

Answer: Sympathetic

Explanation:

Sympathetic nervous system is the part of autonomic nervous system that prompt the fight or flight response in any stressful condition faced by a person. In any such condition body is prepared for responding to the condition with energy rather than managing the stress.

According to the question, fight-or flight response that is getting produced in stressful situation where he cannot find his mother in market due to sympathetic nervous system.