Section: AP Psychology

17) If you move your watch on your wrist by an inch, you will feel it for only a few moments. This best illustrates:

1. parallel processing.
2. accommodation.
3. sensory adaptation.
4. Weber's Law.
5. texture gradient.

Neural adaptation or sensory adaptation is a change over time in the responsiveness of the sensory system to a constant stimulus. It is usually experienced as a change in the stimulus. For example, if one rests one's hand on a table, one immediately feels the table's surface on one's skin.