Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Weekly Assignment #2
In class today we talked about sensory adaptation. Sensory adaptation in when we have the ability to develop a tolerance to any given stimulus. I have personal experiences with this all of the time. My friends say that my house has a very distinct smell, not a bad one though and that they love the smell of my house. One time I was at dance practice and our teacher said that someone had left their costume at one of the performances that we had. A few people took the costume and looked at it and right away everyone said it was mine. They all smelled it and said they knew it was mine because of the distinct smell of my house. I smelled it and it didn't seem distinct to me at all. This happens to me a lot where my friends can tell if something is mine based on the distinct smell of my house. I however don't smell the distinctness because i have adapted to it.
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I can relate to the different smell of houses. Whenever you walk into someone's house that you have never been in before you take in a new scent. After you have been there for a certain amount of time the scent disappears and you become adjusted. My friends can also tell if say a sweatshirt that they found at their house is mine because it "smells like me".
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