__________ is the process by which unchanging information from the senses of taste, touch, smell, and vision is "ignored" by the sensory receptor cells themselves.

A. Transformation
B. Sensory adaptation
C. Transmutation
D. Transduction


Answer: B

Psychology

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a. make internal attributions in both cases b. make external attributions in both cases c. make an internal attribution for placing first, but an external attribution for not placing at all d. make an internal attribution for not placing at all, but an external attribution for placing first

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A two-factor study compares three different treatment conditions (factor 1) for males and females (factor 2). In this study, the main effect for gender is determined by the overall mean score for the males (averaged over the three treatments) and the corresponding overall mean score for the females

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Who is most associated with psychoanalysis?

a. ?Freud b. ?Pavlov c. ?Watson d. ?Skinner

Psychology

Researchers typically study infant attention using ______.

A. assimilation and accommodation procedures B. preferential looking procedures and habituation procedures C. social-referencing procedures D. direct and indirect response procedures

Psychology