Question

As you walk into an elevator, you notice the powerful scent of perfume left behind by someone who has just excited. By the time you reach your floor, you find that you hardly notice the smell anymore. What phenomenon is at work?
a. absolute threshold
b. sensory adaptation
c. transduction
d. Weber's law

Answer 1

Answer:

Sensory adaptation

Explanation:

Sensory adaptation is like when a person reduced sensory adaptation when a stimulus expose comes in repetition. The sensory stimulus reduced our constant stimulus exposure. Sensory adaptation reduced our awareness. In this, our all senses work together and constantly adjust what is around us These senses help us to find out what we feel around us such as aging and disease.  

Thus when you walk to the elevator you feel the powerful feel of scent which is left behind by someone. But sometimes you do not feel that smell for longer. This is the phenomenon of sensory adaptation.