Question

As you walk into your office, you are almost overwhelmed by the strong smell of the cologne with which the copier repairman has doused himself. Because you have studied this chapter, however, you reassure yourself that sensory adaptation will occur and you will become much less aware of the odor in approximately:

Answer 1

A minutes or less

Explanation:

Sensory adaptation refers to the extent that how much a person reduction in sensitivity to the stimulus after constant exposure of it. When sensory adaptation reduces our awareness of sensory adaptation of that continuous stimulus. It helps us to free our attention and to help into a resource to another stimulus around us. Even we do have five senses and these all senses are always work adaptation.

For example, you just walked into your favorite Italian restaurant and when you first walk through the door the smell of masala overwhelmed you. You sit on the table and gradually after a few minutes the scent of good disappears. This is an example of sensory adaptation.