When Walking Home Alone Late One Night, You Are Startled

Multiple Choice

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 defenses. When you see that the shadow is just the neighbor's cat, the _____ division lessens your physiological arousal.

A) sympathetic; parasympathetic
B) peripheral; somatic
C) somatic; peripheral
D) parasympathetic; sympathetic