When you drive a car, you have two pedals (in an automatic transmission!). One of them, the accelerator, makes the car move faster, and the other, the brake, slows the car down. In your peripheral nervous system,

the __________ is like the accelerator and the __________ is the brake.
a. sympathetic nervous system; parasympathetic nervous system
b. parasympathetic nervous system; sympathetic nervous system
c. autonomic nervous system; sympathetic nervous system
d. afferent nervous system; efferent nervous system

Answer: A

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