What are habituation and dishabituation, and what is their relationship to learning development?
What will be an ideal response?
Habituation is the gradual decline in responding due to repeated exposure. Dishabituation is increased attention to new information after habituation. These processes indicate that infants are able to distinguish new from the familiar.
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As a child, Blaine was attacked by a goose and subsequently developed a severe fear of waterfowl
As he got older, the fear gradually faded until it was all but forgotten. Blaine is now in his early twenties and recently went strolling through a park by the river where he came across a flock of geese. The geese gave him a stare, and Blaine experienced a sudden surge of fear. Blaine's fear response is an example of _____. A) stimulus discrimination B) stimulus generalization C) higher-order conditioning D) spontaneous recovery
Which part of the brain is responsible for hunger, thirst, sex, body temperature, and hormone secretion?
a. reticular formation b. pons c. hypothalamus d. hippocampus