Five-year-old byron is christmas shopping with his mother and siblings. when he looks around and realizes his mother is nowhere to be found, byron's nervous system activates the fight-or-flight response.

Sympathetic

Explanation:

Sympathetic nervous system is the part of autonomic nervous system that prompt the fight or flight response in any stressful condition faced by a person. In any such condition body is prepared for responding to the condition with energy rather than managing the stress.

According to the question, fight-or flight response that is getting produced in stressful situation where he cannot find his mother in market due to sympathetic nervous system.

answer; (d) none of the above;

answer: musical connotation

leonard b. meyer (1918-2007) was an american composer, author and philosopher. his work emotion and meaning in music is perhaps the first major treatise on music. it is a philosophical and psychological work, greatly influenced by koffka (one of the major proponents of gestalt psychology). his work deals with the problem of musical meaning and musical communication.