The Ability to Detect Whether Your Body Is in a Horizontal

question 20

Multiple Choice

The ability to detect whether your body is in a horizontal or vertical position depends most directly on

• A) accommodation.
• B) sensory adaptation.
• C) the vestibular sense.
• D) olfactory receptors.

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Definitions:

Variance

An indication of how data points diverge from their average, showing the extent of their spread.

Normally Distributed

Describes a distribution that follows a bell curve, where data is symmetrically distributed with most values clustering around a central point.

Normally Distributed

Describes a statistical distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence.

Mean

The average value of a set of numbers, indicating the central point of a data distribution.