Question

Infants lack the verbal capacity to give us feedback on their sensations and perceptions, but we can measure their abilities by monitoring bodily functions. If doctors monitor a newborn and find increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, increased stress hormones, and decreased oxygen in the blood, which sensation can they surmise the infant is experiencing

Answer 1

Answer:

Pain

Explanation:

Bodily functions are often a response to the sensation being felt by an individual, when an individual is relazlxed and in a good mood, the function of several body Organs are quite different from when such individual is undergoing a painful sensation. Therefore, Bodily functions are employed when evaluating the state or sensation which is occurring to an infant as they lack the ability to verbally express their feelings. Therefore, an infant whose Bodily functions exhibits increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, increased stress hormones, and decreased oxygen in the blood could be said to be undergoing pain.