This effect is used repeatedly, so to speak, in television and radio commercials. Attention is also frequently related to contrast or change in stimulation. The contrasting type styles draw attention because they are unexpected. Change, contrast, and incongruity are perhaps the most basic sources of attention. B. Habituation .
Adaptation decreases the actual number of sensory messages sent to the brain.
If so, you have observed an orientation response. At first a new album holds your attention all the way through. When a stimulus is repeated wihtout change, the OR habituates , or decreases. C. Motives . Motives also play a role in attention.