On the first day of class, Professor Wilson asked her students go around the room and introduce themselves. When it was Jaron's turn to speak, he began to perspire, and his heart started racing. His hands became cold and clammy, and his respiration rapid and shallow. What divisions of Jaron's autonomic nervous system was activated in this experience?

sympathetic nervous system

Explanation:

The sympathetic nervous system is one of the divisions of the autonomic nervous system which regulates and controls involuntary body functions such as heart rate, breath rate, blood pressure. The sympathetic nervous system is specifically responsible for the unconscious, involuntary control of  body functions and metabolism, initiating a fight or flight response whee b perceives stress or threat. These fight or flight responses, which include rapid respiration,intense respiration, increased heart, are activated by the sympathetic system.

the oblique cord is a ligament between the ulnar and radius bones in the lower arm near the elbow. it takes the form of a small, flattened band, extending downward and lateralward, from the lateral side of the ulnar tuberosity at the base of the coronoid process to the radius a little below the radial tuberosity.