When you walk into your grandma's house, you follow the smell of the baking chocolate chip cookies using ________ cues, but after spending a half an hour in the kitchen, you cannot notice the strong smell anymore because of ________, meaning that your receptors adjusted.
A) visual; sensory adaptation
B) olfactory; stapedial reflex
C) olfactory; sensory adaptation
D) visual; stapedial reflex

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Olfactory cues refer to the sense of smell, which is what allows you to follow the smell of the cookies. Sensory adaptation is when your receptors become less responsive to a constant stimulus, such as the strong smell of the cookies in the kitchen. The other choices, visual cues and stapedial reflex, do not apply to this scenario.

When You Walk into Your Grandma's House, You Follow the Smell