Regarding the sensory abilities of humans, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Our sensory receptors do not transduce all of the energies they encounter.
b. Many types of stimuli cannot be sensed directly because we lack sensory receptors to transduce the energy.
c. Some sense receptors transduce only part of their target energy range.
d. Because our sense organs are able to convert one kind of energy into another, they are known as feature detectors.
ANSWER: d
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