48. Loud Noises Startle and Get Attention
If you want to get someone’s attention with a sound, Table 48.1 describes some choices and when to use each one (adapted from Deatherage, 1972).
Table 48.1. How To Get Attention With Sounds
People Habituate to Stimuli
Have you visited with someone who had a clock that chimed every hour? You’re lying in bed about to doze off, and there goes that darn clock again. “How can anyone get any sleep in this house?” you wonder. Yet everyone who lives in the house sleeps just fine. They have habituated to the sound of the clock chimes. Because they hear it every hour, they don’t pay attention to it anymore.
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