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 defences. When you see that the shadow is just the neighbour's cat, the _____ division begins to lessen your physiological arousal.
A) sympathetic; parasympathetic
B) peripheral; somatic
C) somatic; peripheral
D) parasympathetic; sympathetic
A) sympathetic; parasympathetic
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