Preadaptation refers to

a. gradually matching your sleep-waking cycle to a new time schedule.
b. the steady state of equilibrium maintained by the body.
c. the mental process of assigning cause to external events.
d. the process of attributing arousal to a particular source.


ANSWER: a

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