After Living All His Life in a Town That Pumps

question 116

Multiple Choice

After living all his life in a town that pumps its water from relatively pure underground wells, John moves to a city that gets its water from a local river and must add chlorine to purify it. He totally dislikes the taste of the city water. His friends, who are long-time city residents, cannot understand his problem because they have experienced ________.

• A) sensory adaptation
• B) sensory inhibition
• C) sensory illusion
• D) a reaction formation

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Interest calculated on the initial principal and also on the accumulated interest of previous periods of a deposit or loan.

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