You are living in a place that experiences wildfires annually. This year, in particular, has had multiple weeks of high-intensity fires. Which physiological system is likely activated in this situation?

Alright. So you are living in a place that experiences wildfires annually. This year, in particular, has had multiple weeks of high intensity fires. Which physiological system is likely activated in this situation? So looking at these answer choices, we can immediately eliminate secondary appraisal because that is not a physiological system. Then looking at these other physiological systems, we can pretty quickly eliminate the parasympathetic nervous system, which is our, like, rest and digest system. So I don't think if you're under the constant, you know, threat of a wildfire consuming your home, you're gonna be particularly relaxed at all times. Right? So that leaves us the HPA axis and our sympathetic nervous system. Now, in this particular scenario, we have been experiencing multiple weeks of high intensity fires, so you've probably been under a slightly heightened level of stress for weeks at this point. So, we've had this kind of prolonged chronic stress response. So that would be basically our HPA axis. Our HPA axis is the, stress response system that allows us to have this prolonged stress response. Now you might see sympathetic nervous system activation if the wildfire actually came into your yard and was about to consume your home in particular. But for the most part, if the fires are just in your area, you're kind of just generally in danger but not in that very moment, you're gonna see activation of that HPA axis if that is lasting, you know, days or weeks or months at a time. Alright, so our answer here is a) the HPA axis and there you go.