When You First Put Your Hat On, You Can Feel

question 62

Multiple Choice

When you first put your hat on, you can feel it quite easily, but after a while, you forget that you are wearing a hat at all-the sensation is gone. What happens?

• A) sensory fatigue
• B) subliminal perception
• C) sensory adaptation
• D) perceptual defense

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Definitions:

Sense of Smell

The ability to perceive odors or scents through the olfactory system located in the nose.

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Stress

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