The process by which unchanging information from the senses of taste,touch,smell,and vision is "ignored" by the sensory receptors is called:
A)habituation.
B)adaptation.
C)accommodation.
D)transduction.

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The process described is adaptation, in which sensory receptors become less responsive to constant or unchanging stimuli over time. Habituation is a related process in which the brain stops attending to or responding to a stimulus that is no longer meaningful or important. Accommodation refers to the process by which the lens of the eye changes shape to focus on objects at different distances, while transduction is the process by which sensory information is converted into electrical signals in the nervous system.

The Process by Which Unchanging Information from the Senses of Taste,touch,smell,and