Multiple Choice
The evolutionary advantage of sensory adaptation is that it
A) prevents fatigue of sensory receptors.
B) allows people to attend to the constant excitation of the hairs on the skin by clothing.
C) prevents the nervous system from being overwhelmed by stimuli that offer very little news about the world.
D) allows the human brain to reassign sensory cortex if a limb is lost.
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