When You First Sit Down on Your Blind Date, There

question 55

Multiple Choice

When you first sit down on your blind date, there is romantic music playing softly in the restaurant. After a minute or two, you no longer hear it unless you actively attend to the music. What is this reduction of sensory reception called?

• A) dishabituation
• B) cross-linking
• C) synesthesia
• D) sensory adaptation
• E) transduction

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Definitions:

Hudson River School

A mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters influenced by romanticism, focusing on the Hudson River Valley.

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Colorist Painting

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Form and Line

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