The student nurse is learning about the stages of the sexual response cycle in order to care for patients with sexual disorders. The student will learn that the primary physiology of excitement or arousal involves which system?
1. Sympathetic nervous system
2. Parasympathetic nervous system
3. Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system
4. Peripheral nervous system.
Answer: 2
Explanation: According to the sexual response cycle, excitement or arousal is a vascular phenomenon involving the parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic, renin-angiotensin-aldosterone, and peripheral nervous systems are not involved in the primary physiology of excitement or arousal.
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