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Shots

Submitted by Lauren Poon on Mon, 03/26/2007 - 11:15pm.

In class, we agreed that experiences are psychosomatic so activity in the nervous system leads to the senses. What happens when a child closes his/her eyes when getting a shot at the doctor’s office? Why do people claim that the shot will hurt less if you close your eyes and not look at the shot? Nothing different happens to the nervous system in relaying signals to the brain, only the eyes close which happens after. We claim that the nervous system fires first and then the eyes see. The child should feel pain despite whether or not the eyes are closed.

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