If you move your watchband up your wrist an inch or so,you will feel it for only a few moments. This best illustrates

A) parallel processing.
B) accommodation.
C) sensory adaptation.
D) Weber's law.

Sensory adaptation refers to the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment. When we are exposed to a constant or repeating stimulus, our sensitivity to it decreases over time. Moving the watchband up the wrist an inch or so results in a brief sensation as the sensory receptors adjust to this new position before adapting and no longer signaling this change to the brain.