Mary's Brain Can't Directly Process Sound Waves to Hear What

question 71

Multiple Choice

Mary's brain can't directly process sound waves to hear what her boyfriend is saying.Instead,her sensory receptors detect sound waves and change them into signals that her brain interprets as meaning "I love you," in a process called

• A) absolute threshold.
• B) signal detection.
• C) transduction.
• D) sensory adaptation.

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