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AP Psychology 2.2 Biological Bases of Behavior. What is the part of the nervous system responsible for the "fight or flight" response?

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the fight or flight [Woman runs away from a bear]

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response useful for everybody but fighter jet pilots all right take a look [Bear appears behind a pilot in the cockpit]

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at this question, Chloe is attacked by a bear while on a camping trip the part of [The question appearing whilst Chloe is running away from the bear]

00:15

the nervous system responsible for the fight-or-flight response is called what

00:19

and here are the potential answers: (mumbles)

00:24

Okay let's ignore the fact that we might never go

00:27

camping again and start with B is the parasympathetic nervous system

00:31

responsible for the fight-or-flight response no the parasympathetic nervous [Red cross over B]

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system part of the autonomic nervous system involves responses like sexual

00:40

arousal salivation and urination to name a few generally things you want to avoid [Guy with love hearts in his eyes]

00:45

during a fight and seeing as the parasympathetic system is part of the [Guy pees during boxing match]

00:49

autonomic nervous system then the autonomic system can't really be our

00:53

answer either so nice try C we want something more specific you can also get [Red cross over answer C]

00:58

rid of D&E for similar reasons the upper nervous system consists of the brain and

01:02

spinal cord and the lower nervous system consists of well everything else not

01:06

specific enough for this one so that leaves us with a the sympathetic nervous

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system whose primary job is to handle the fight-or-flight mechanism now that [Tick appears over answer A]

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we answered that question maybe we should check on Chloe what knowledge stops for [Chloe lying on the floor next to a bear]

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no bear attack

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