If a Business Wanted to Gather Up-To-The-Minute Data on Its

question 156

Multiple Choice

If a business wanted to gather up-to-the-minute data on its customers, one way to do that would be

• A) database management.
• B) data mining.
• C) social media.
• D) physical-world observations.

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Definitions:

Sensory Adaptation

The process by which sensitivity to stimuli decreases over time as an organism adapts to current conditions.

Perceptual Preferences

Individual differences in the ways people prefer to take in, process, and interpret sensory information from the world around them.

Sensory Systems

The parts of the nervous system that detect changes in the environment and transmit this information to the brain.

Supertaster

An individual who experiences taste with far greater intensity than the average person, due to having more taste buds.