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- Dictionaryhabituation/həˌbɪtʃʊˈeɪʃn/
noun
- 1. the action or process of becoming habituated: "the training of the horse does not depend on force but on habituation"
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Decrease in a behavioral response to a repeated stimulus
Habituation is a form of non-associative learning in which a non-reinforced response to a stimulus decreases after repeated or prolonged presentations of that stimulus. For example, organisms may habituate to repeated sudden loud noises when they learn these have no consequences. Responses that habituate include those that involve the entire organism or those that involve only biological component... Wikipedia