Without Sensory Adaptation,our Perceptual World Would Be Chaos

question 358

Multiple Choice

Without sensory adaptation,our perceptual world would be chaos.What would be the biggest problem without sensory adaptation?

• A) Our sensory receptors wouldn't be able to simultaneously transduce stimuli from multiple sensory systems.
• B) Our sensitivity to stimuli that are below threshold would be less.
• C) We wouldn't have any mental resources left over to focus on potentially important environmental stimuli.
• D) We would succumb to top-down processing at the expense of bottom-up processing.

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