Why is the sympathetic nervous system compared to the accelerator of a car?

What will be an ideal response?

Answer: A good answer will include the following key points.
? The sympathetic nervous system increases arousal like the accelerator increases speed of a car.
? The sympathetic nervous system shifts the body into "action mode," just as the accelerator causes a car to speed up.

Psychology

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If we restrict our thinking about an aspect of mind to the information provided by one perspective, at worst, the result may ____

a. be incomplete b. lack depth c. lead us in the wrong direction d. be overly simplistic

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