"It's So Noisy! How Can You Stand It" Remarks Caitlyn

question 44

Multiple Choice

"It's so noisy! How can you stand it" remarks Caitlyn as the thruway traffic screams past her friend Dave's ground floor apartment. "I don't even notice it anymore," Dave replies. This exchange best exemplifies the perceptual process of:

• A)adaptation
• B)accommodation
• C)adjustment
• D)attenuation

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Definitions:

Primed

Being prepared or made ready for a specific action or condition, often in the context of psychological processing where exposure to a stimulus influences response to a subsequent stimulus.

Phrase Recognition

The ability to identify and understand groups of words as coherent units within a sentence or spoken language.

Shadowing Performance

Involves repeating speech immediately after hearing it, a method used in psychological experiments to study attention and auditory processing.

Cocktail Party Effect

The ability of the human brain to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, much like being able to concentrate on a single conversation in a noisy environment.