After playing tennis, Briana hurries home because her mother always bakes Briana's favorite scones on Saturday afternoons. As Briana opens the front door, she notices the kitchen trashcan smells horribly, but her mother says,
"I don't smell anything." The most likely explanation for this is that Briana's mother:
a. experienced a decline in her sense of smell as she reached middle age.
b. has a different absolute threshold for olfaction than does her daughter.
c. adapted to the smell of the trashcan because it is an unchanging stimulus.
d. is a naysayer, while Briana is a yea-sayer.
Answer: c
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