Jacob has been working at his computer for the past two hours, and the hum that he found so annoying when he started no longer bothers him. The change in Jacob's sensitivity to the noise from the computer illustrates the process known as
a. perceptual invariance.
b. perceptual assimilation.
c. adjusting just noticeable differences.
d. sensory adaptation.
D
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