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Stimulus vs Dishabituate - What's the difference?

stimulus | dishabituate |

As a noun stimulus

is .

As a verb dishabituate is

to respond (to a stimulus) with dishabituation.

stimulus

Noun

(stimuli)
  • (rfc-sense) Anything that may have an impact or influence on a system.
  • an economic stimulus
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Democrats, meanwhile, point out that Republicans seem to have made a conscious decision, beginning with the stimulus , to oppose anything the president put forward, dooming any chance of renewed cooperation between the parties.}}
  • (rfc-sense) (physiology) Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response.
  • (rfc-sense) (psychology) Anything effectively impinging upon any of the sensory apparatuses of a living organism, including physical phenomena both internal and external to the body.
  • (rfc-sense) Anything that induces a person to take action.
  • Synonyms

    * (anything that may have an impact or influence) influence * (anything that induces a person to take action) impetus, impulse, spur

    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). }}