Stimulus is something that causes a psychological response. It can be internal or external. The stimulus is the contact with the hot pan. It is an external stimulus. Sense organs, such as the sensory receptors in the skin are sensitive to external stimulus. The quickly pull of your hand is a reflex action.
The contact causes a nerve impulse that will travel to the spinal cord via the sensory neurons.<span>To respond to the stimulus of the reflex arc, the muscle needs to contract to pull the hand quickly away from the hot pan.</span>
The fact or state of being engrossed within something.
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the process or action by which one thing that absorbs or it is absorbed by something else.
In the story and according to Scrooge, the place were poor people work to get their food is the workhouse. It is also the place where Scrooge things poor people must spend their Christmas. Aside from this, he also said that the prison is also a place for poor people during Christmas.