Which statement is FALSE:

A. Perception is the conscious awareness of external or internal stimuli.
B. The cerebral cortex causes the feeling or sensation to come from the receptors being stimulated (in other words, the eyes seem to see and the ears to hear). This is called projection.
C. Adaptation is an increase in sensitivity to continual stimuli.
D. Generally, if pain is referred, then the area to which the pain is referred and the visceral organ involved are served by the same segment of the spinal cord.
E. Phantom pain is pain that seems to come from a missing limb or other body part.


Ans: C. Adaptation is an increase in sensitivity to continual stimuli.

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