During an emergency, one of the warning horns keeps sounding, you start getting used to it. What is this called?
Sensory adaptation/Habituation refers to a reduction in sensitivity to a stimulus after constant exposure to it.
- For instance, when a continuous stimulus is first applied, the receptors respond at a very high impulse rate at first, then progressively less rapidly until finally many of them no longer respond at all.
A classic example of this is when you are exposed to a noise, after constant exposure to it, it may be hardly sensed - if at all.
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