habitus, condition] A simple kind of learning involving a loss of sensitivity to unimportant stimuli, allowing an animal to conserve time and energy.
Bears naturally prefer to live in the wilderness where there are few or no people. A habituated bear is one that often returns to places where there are lots of people, usually because it has learned it can get food there.
Simple type of learning in which familiarity with a stimulus reduces, slows, or stops a response. Compare dishabituation. (132)
A decrease in response as a result of repeated stimulation that cannot be explained by sensory adaptation or fatigue.
A decrease in responding to repeated presentations of the same stimulus.
is a learning process in which a subject decreases his/her behavioural response to a repetitive stimulus
Gradual decline in response to recurrent stimuli without specific significance. The tendency to become familiar with a stimulus of no consequence after repeated exposure to it. Learned suppression of response to a repeated stimulus.
being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
a decrease in responsiveness to unimportant stimuli; becoming accustomed to something.
Adaptation to something familiar, so that both physiological and psychological responses are reduced.
The declining or waning of a behavior as the result of repeated presentation of the stimuli that initially caused the behavior; the process of gradually getting an animal used to a situation that it normally reacts to, (i.e. avoids or reacts adversely to) by prolonged or repeated exposure to that situation.
becoming accustomed to a situation through frequent or continuous exposure. Events in that situation are then noticed less, creating an expectation that events will unfold consistent with previous experience. A driver will become habituated to his or her surroundings.
(ha bich´ oo ay shun) • The simplest form of learning, in which an animal presented with a stimulus without reward or punishment eventually ceases to respond.
The process of decreasing responsiveness to a recurring stimulus. The simplest form of learning. See also dishabituation.
Learning process wherein the response to a repeated stimulus gradually declines, resulting eventually in the total absence of the response; becoming desensitized.
An unconscious form of learning by which our brain learns to ignore a repeatedly-applied stimulus once it has been categorized as non-threatening.
The result of repeated consumption of a drug which produces psychological but no physical dependence. The psychological dependence produces a desire (not a compulsion) to continue taking drugs for the sense of improved well-being.
this is the suppression of response to a repeated harmless stimulus. An example might be animals learning to ignore a train or sound of a horn near the enclosure. The stimulus results in no reward or punishment.
A decline in the tendency to respond to stimuli that have become familiar. While short-term habituation dissipates in a matter of minutes, long-term habituation may persist for days or weeks.
The reduction in the strength of a response to a repeated stimulus. In general, almost any stimulus will produce habituation; for example, a pure tone sounded for a half-hour may decrease as much as 20 db in perceived loudness. See also dishabituation.
Gradual decline in intensity, frequency, or duration of a response over repeated or lengthy occurrences of the same stimulus.
The process in which a stimulus loses its attention-getting abilities by virtue of its familiarity.
In psychology, habituation is 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. An animal first responds to a sensory stimulus, but if it is neither rewarding nor harmful the animal learns to suppress its response through repeated encounters.
