Tickling Yourself Is Difficult Because

question 118

Multiple Choice

Tickling yourself is difficult because

• A) certain parts of your brain build up an anticipation response before the tickle.
• B) several cutaneous receptors must act in concert in order to prevent pain.
• C) deep pressure is needed in order to reach the "laughing" receptors.
• D) skin stretches.

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Definitions:

Visual

Related to seeing or sight, involving the use of vision.

Pictorial

Pertaining to or expressed in pictures; visual.

Verbal

relating to or involving words and the use of language to communicate.

Finke's Principles

Pertains to theories and concepts developed by cognitive psychologist Ronald A. Finke, emphasizing the imaginative creation and manipulation of visual images.