You are walking toward your car in the campus parking garage late at night. Suddenly, you hear a car horn and are startled. Instantaneously, your heart begins to race and your breathing becomes shallow. Which system of your body responded to the car horn?

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The sympathetic nervous system is responsible for the fight or flight response in the body, which include an increased heart rate and shallow breathing. Hearing a car horn in a potentially dangerous situation could trigger this response. The parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for calming the body down after a stressor, and the peripheral and sensory-somatic nervous systems do not specifically respond to stimuli in the same way as the sympathetic nervous system.

You Are Walking Toward Your Car in the Campus Parking