Question

Suppose you enter a room and notice a disgusting smell on your first walk into the room, but you stop noticing it when you stay there for a while. What does it illustrate?

Options

• Selective attention

• Synesthesia

• Sensory adaptation

• Sensory attention

Answer 1

Sensory adaptation

Explanation:

Herman Ebbinghaus discovered the serial-position effect. He was a psychologist from the United States. The serial position effect is a tendency in which recalling the first and last items in a list is more accurate while recalling items in the middle is less accurate.