Professor Walker Is Lecturing About the Law of Specific Nerve

question 115

Multiple Choice

 Professor Walker is lecturing about the law of specific nerve energies. She would not tell the class that _____.

• A) neurons in the ear send impulses that are interpreted as sound.
• B) neurons in the eye detect light energy.
• C) chemicals are the specific energy detected by receptors in the nose and tongue.
• D) although found in different places, the same kind of receptors on neurons are able to detect light and sound.

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