AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Your sympathetic nervous system is a network of nerves that helps your body activate its “fight-or-flight” response. This system’s activity increases when you’re stressed, in danger or physically active.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sympathetic nervous system: This system activates body processes that help you in times of need, especially times of stress or danger. This system is responsible for your body’s “fight-or-flight” response.

Detailed explanation-3: -The autonomic nervous system has two components, the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system functions like a gas pedal in a car. It triggers the fight-or-flight response, providing the body with a burst of energy so that it can respond to perceived dangers.

Detailed explanation-4: -A branch of the autonomic nervous system responsible for rapid activation of the fight-flight components of the body’s emergency survival response in the face of actual or perceived threat, emotional or physiological overwhelm, or traumatic memories, reminders and conditioned reactions.

Detailed explanation-5: -The sympathetic nervous system promotes the fight-or-flight response while the parasympathetic nervous system helps calm the body once the threat is gone.