Dishabituate

//dɪsəˈbɪtʃueɪt// verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To respond (to a stimulus) with dishabituation. intransitive

    "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)."

  2. 2
    To reach a state of dishabituation.

Example

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"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)."

Etymology

From dis- + habituate.

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