Question

You arrive at your office and are startled by the sounds of building construction outside your window. As you settle into your work for the day, you forget about the construction noises. When a visitor comes to your office later that day, the first thing she comments on is how disruptive the construction noise must be to your concentration. You realize that you have not even noticed it for over an hour. This is due to

Answer 1

The correct answer is - sensory adaptation.

Step-by-step explanation:

Sensory adaptation is an adaption to a particular sensory stimulation in case of longer or constant exposure by the reduction in sensitivity to this stimulus after constant exposure to it.

It reduces our focus on a constant stimulus to free awareness and the important resources to attend to other stimuli in the environment around us. In the given question sound is an constant stimulus which is reduces by the process sensory adaption and draw attention to important stimuls around.