As You Sit Reading This Page, Receptors for Touch and Pressure

Multiple Choice

As you sit reading this page, receptors for touch and pressure in the seat of your pants are sending nerve impulses to your brain. Although these sensations have been present all along, you were probably not aware of them until just now. This "seat-of-the-pants phenomenon" is an example of

A) selective attention.
B) selective accommodation.
C) sensory deceleration.
D) sensory gating.