Look up: habituation

1. habituation
   [n] - a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions
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2. Habituation
   The gradual acclimatisation or familiarisation with a phenomenon or set of circumstances to the point at which it goes unnoticed.
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3. Habituation
   The process by which an organism ceases to respond to some recurring or familiar stimulus. See also: Psychoacoustics.
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4. Habituation
   is a learning process in which a subject decreases his/her behavioural response to a repetitive stimulus
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5. habituation
   decline in response of an organism to environmental or other stimuli with repeated or maintained exposure Category: Medicine • The mechanisms and processes by which living organisms and society become increasingly accustomed and less sensitive to changes and certain harms Category: Management in the public and private sector
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6. Habituation
   Ha·bit`u·a'tion (-ā'shŭn) noun [ Confer French habituation .] The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
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7. habituation
   1. <physiology> The tendency of some neurons to require either a stronger nerve signal or a longer recharge period before it can fire again, if it has been triggered recently. ... 2. <psychology> The disappearance of responsiveness to accustomed stimulation. It does not include drug habituation. ... (03 Jul 1999) ...
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8. habituation
   noun a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions
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9. habituation
   (hә-bich″u-a´shәn) the gradual adaptation to a stimulus or to the environment. the extinction of a conditioned reflex by repetition of the conditioned stimulus. older term denoting sometimes tolerance and other times a psychological dependence resulting from the repeated consumpti...
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10. Habituation
    • (n.) The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
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11. habituation
    the waning of an animal`s behavioral response to a stimulus, as a result of a lack of reinforcement during continual exposure to the stimulus. It is ... [8 related articles]
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12. habituation
    Type: Term Pronunciation: ha-bit′chū-ā′shŭn Definitions: 1. The process of forming a habit, referring generally to psychological dependence on the continued use of a drug to maintain a sense of well-being, which can result in drug addiction. 2. The method by which the nerv...
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13. Habituation
    Habituation can be defined as a process or as a procedure. As a process it is defined as a decrease in an elicited behavior resulting from the repeated presentation of an eliciting stimulus (a simple form of learning). As a procedure it is defined as the repeated presentation of an eliciting stimul...
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14. HABITUATION
    Learning process wherein the response to a repeated stimulus gradually declines, resulting eventually in the total absence of the response; becoming desensitized.
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15. Habituation
    An example of non-associative learning in which there is a progressive diminution of behavioral response probability with repetition of a stimulus. It is another form of integration.
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