AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Examples of Sensory Adaptation Sight: When you go into a dark room or outside at night, your eyes eventually adjust to the darkness because your pupils enlarge to let in more light. Likewise, when you are in bright light, your eyes adjust to the narrowing of your pupils.

Detailed explanation-2: -Parents experience sensory adaptation as noise in a daycare becomes less noticeable. Habituation, on the other hand, occurs when a person shifts their attention away from something, like the background noise of a train which is not threatening. Note that they may shift their attention away without much thought.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sensory adaptation refers to the way our senses adjust to different stimuli. Various senses-including hearing, touch, smell, proprioception, and sight-can adapt in response to changes in the environment.

Detailed explanation-4: -Which of the following is an example of sensory adaptation? When admiring the texture of a piece of fabric, Calvin usually runs his fingertips over the cloth’s surface. He does this because: if the cloth were held motionless, sensory adaptation to its feel would quickly occur.