Answer to Question #123850 in Psychology for femi Akintomide

Question

How do sensory adaptation and perceptual sets help people deal with the potentially overwhelming amount of information in our environment at any given time?

Answer 1

The adaptation enables people to approach information (stimuli) with a particular frame of reference thus building the ability to accurately increase or decrease their response to information. For instance, a person who lives near an airport can concentrate reading a book while ignoring airplane sounds.