The Ability to Taste the Five Basic Flavours

question 80

Multiple Choice

The ability to taste the five basic flavours

• A) seems to decline over the years of adulthood.
• B) does not seem to decline over the years of adulthood.
• C) seems to increase over the years of adulthood.
• D) seems to intensify in late adulthood.

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Definitions:

Selection

The process of choosing the most suitable candidates for a position or task from a pool of applicants.

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of an entire distribution, commonly the mean, median, or mode.

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Halo Effect

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