THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Question
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parallel processing
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accommodation
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sensory adaptation
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Weber’s Law
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Detailed explanation-1: -signal detection. If you move your watchband up your wrist an inch or so, you will feel it for only a few moments. This best illustrates Answer parallel processing.
Detailed explanation-2: -diminishing sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus. Sensory adaptation helps us to focus our attention on what kind of stimuli? accommodation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tibial nerve innervation enables you to move your leg, foot and toes. Innervation also makes it possible to sense: Body positioning.
Detailed explanation-4: -Why is it that after wearing shoes for a while, you cease to notice them (until questions like this draw your attention back to them)? ANSWER: The shoes provide constant stimulation. Thanks to sensory adaptation, we tend to focus primarily on changing stimuli.