Facts about Habituation in Psychology
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Spontaneous recovery, discovered by Pavlov in 1927, demonstrates that habituated responses can suddenly reappear after a rest period without further stimulus exposure.
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Habituation is considered stimulus-specific, meaning recovery of the original response occurs when a different stimulus is presented, a phenomenon called dishabituation.
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The Thompson-Spencer model describes habituation through dual-process theory, distinguishing between a habituating process and a sensitizing process that interact to determine behavioral response.
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Repeated exposure to a loud noise causing progressively weaker startle responses is a classic example of habituation studied in neuroscience research.
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In developmental psychology, habituation is used to study infant cognition, as babies look longer at novel stimuli than at familiar ones.
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Habituation is one of the simplest forms of learning, in which an organism decreases its response to a repeated, harmless stimulus over time.