PSYCH 250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3.1: Dishabituation, Habituation, Spaced
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8:31 am: habituation: decrease in the strength or occurrence of a behavior after repeated exposure to the stimulus that produces the behavior. Stimulus specific: orienting response: an organism"s natural reaction to seeing a novel stimulus or an important event, fixation time: staring at a novel event; decreases with repeated presentation of the stimuli, can be used to study habituation. Stimulus specificity and dishabituation: habituation to one event does not cause habituation to every other stimulus, dishabituation: renewal of a previously habituated response that occurs when the organism is presented with a novel stimulus. Factors influencing the rate and duration of habituation: how startling the stimulus is, number of times it"s experienced. Length of time between repeated exposures: the less arousing an event is the quicker the event will habituate, animals given intervals in between exposures will show habituation after fewer exposures.
