__________ are located in the fingertips and are used to detect form and roughness.
A. Free nerve endings
B. Pacinian corpuscles
C. Meissner's corpuscles
D. Merkel disks
Answer: C
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c. the manipulation of every variable at each stage of the experiment. d. the manipulation of one or more factors and observation of how these manipulations change the behavior under investigation.
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