Mary's Brain Cannot Directly Process Sound Waves to Hear What

question 23

Multiple Choice

Mary's brain cannot 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 can interpret as meaning "I love you," in a process called

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

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