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Which autonomic system is most likely to be dominant while someone is in a stressful situation?

peripheral nervous system
sympathetic nervous system
somatic nervous system
parasympathetic nervous system

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The correct option is:

sympathetic nervous system

Stress is actually nothing but the bodies reacting to a challenge that it is faced with.

Step-by-step explanation:

In response to a stressor, the sympathetic nervous system choreographs what you familiarly call the fight-or-flight answer. It improves muscle blood flow and tension, stretches pupils, stimulates heart rate and respiration, and prolongs perspiration and arterial blood pressure.

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Sympathetic nervous system is the autonomic system that is most likely to be dominant while someone is in a stressful situation. The correct option among all the options that are given in the question is the second option. Stress is actually nothing but the bodies reacting to a challenge that it is faced with.
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