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dejastew

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The discovery that stimulation of a particular sensory nerve provides codes for that sense, no matter how the stimulation takes place is called _____.
 
  a. signal response theory
  b. specific energy doctrine
  c. sensory adaptation theory
  d. selective transduction doctrine

Question 2

The process of translating the physical properties of a stimulus into a pattern of neural activity that allows us to identify those properties is known as ____.
 
  a. encoding
  b. reception
  c. perception
  d. transduction



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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
b

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
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