Select the Correct Statement About Olfaction

question 106

Multiple Choice

Select the correct statement about olfaction.

• A) Olfactory adaptation is only due to fading of receptor cell response.
• B) Olfactory receptors have a high degree of specificity toward a single type of chemical.
• C) Substances must be volatile and hydrophobic in order to activate olfactory receptors.
• D) Some of the sensation of olfaction is actually one of pain.

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Definitions:

Internal Validity

Extent to which all factors that could extraneously affect a study’s results are controlled within a laboratory study.

Experimental Group

The group in a scientific study that receives the treatment or intervention being tested, as opposed to the control group which does not.

Control Group

In an experimental study, group of subjects whose experience resembles that of the experimental group in all ways except that they do not receive the key manipulation.

Wait List Control

A research method where participants are assigned to a waiting list and receive the intervention after the active treatment group, used as a control condition in studies.