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Dishabituation vs Dishabituate - What's the difference?

dishabituation | dishabituate |

As a noun dishabituation

is a way of responding to old stimuli as if they were new.

As a verb dishabituate is

to respond (to a stimulus) with dishabituation.

dishabituation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A way of responding to old stimuli as if they were new.Boyd, D & Bee, H (2006). Lifespan Development 4th ed. London: Pearson

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    dishabituate

    English

    Verb

    (dishabituat)
  • To respond (to a stimulus) with dishabituation.
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    • , passage=Separate experiments show that infants habituated to repeated occurrences of one object will dishabituate to the presentation of a new object (Xu and Carey 1996 , p. 136). }}