Question

when your phone alerts you that you received a text you check the message. when your phone doesn't sound an alert you check it much less frequently. the difference of your behavior from one situation to another is most likely due to

Answer 1

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Although there are no options attached, we can say the following,

When your phone alerts you that you received a text you check the message. When your phone doesn't sound an alert you check it much less frequently. The difference in your behavior from one situation to another is most likely due to awareness, conditioning, and the reaction to an external stimulus.

The external stimulus is of course the ringing or the sound alert. This makes people immediately check what the alert is about. In today's modern world, people are conditioned to react to a stimulus; the alarm sound. That is why, in the presence of the stimulus, they conditionally react and check their phones.

When there is no stimulus, the mind does not operate in a conditioned way and people less frequently react as in the presence of the stimulus.