Many stimuli, when presented to an animal for the first time, will elicit a response. Following repeated presentations of such stimuli, responding often declines. This decline in responding is termed HABITUATION. For example, a loud noise will,...

Habituation The reduction in response level that occurs when an infant has become accustomed to a particular stimulus. Habituation, the reduction in response to a stimulus over time, has been the subject of research on infant perception. Researchers...

A habit is defined as a way of behaving that is repeated so often it no longer involves conscious thought. A habit might be a person brushing her teeth every night before bed, or walking the dog every morning before school or work. These habits...

When a ringing bell is presented to a cat, it may evoke a turning of the head toward the sound source. If that same stimulus is repeated over and over again, the probability and magnitude of this orienting response decrease. This phenomenon is called...

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 stimulus,...

A Cape Cod man who claimed he was homophobic, racist and a habitual liar to avoid jury duty earned an angry rebuke from a judge on Monday, who referred the case to prosecutors for possible charges."In 32 years of service in courtrooms, as a prosecutor,...

Park rangers in Congo found a dead mountain gorilla after a raid on a suspected ring of gorilla traffickers in which authorities detained two people, conservationists said Tuesday.The dead female infant was found near east Congo's Virunga National Park, where Congolese rebels and army troops...

A court has banned smoking while driving in India's capital in what is believed to be the first of its kind in any major city worldwide, police said Tuesday.Declaring "New Delhi roads dangerous to human life," the city's High Court imposed new measures aimed at...

Former Vice President Al Gore is taking Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government government to task for suggesting he endorsed its performance on climate change.The environmentalist, filmmaker and one-time presidential candidate issued a statement from his Tennessee office Monday distancing himself statements made by John Baird,...