When you walk into your grandma's house, you follow the smell of the baking chocolate chip cookies using ________ cues, but after spending a half an hour in the kitchen, you cannot notice the strong smell anymore because of ________, meaning that your

receptors adjusted.

A) olfactory; stapedial reflex B) olfactory; sensory adaptation
C) visual; sensory adaptation D) visual; stapedial reflex


Answer: B

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