How Does Your Text Explain the Fact That the Pain

question 102

Multiple Choice

How does your text explain the fact that the pain threshold is lower among women than among men? Is this a bottom-up or a top-down account?

• A) Women are not encouraged to be stoic in the face of pain. This is a bottom-up account.
• B) Women have more pain receptors in their skin than do men. This is a bottom-up account. Facial skin - not everywhere according to text:: research suggests that women may have about twice as many pain receptorsin their facial skin than men. This suggests that at least some of the differences in
• Pain sensitivity have a physical cause. It is not yet known whether this difference exists
• Throughout the body or whether it is specific to the face.
• C) Women are not encouraged to be stoic in the face of pain. This is a top-down account.
• D) Women have more pain receptors in their skin than do men. This is a top-down account.

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