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UK
/hˌæbɪtʃuːˈeɪʃən/
]
NOUN
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions
How To Use habituation In A Sentence
- This system shows habituation - that is the response of the motor neurons to repeated stimulation of the sensory neurons decreases.
- Social factors include habituation to sex with the partner, and unhappiness with the relationship.
- The same excitatory process also appears to temporarily reverse long-term habituation.
- This link between habituation of acute cardiovascular responses and relatively rapid (yet gradual) normalization of heart rate rhythmicity suggests that mice adapt to adverse social conditions.
- I guess it will make for an interesting test of habituation.
- I have thought it worthwhile to vary the interpretation of this word, because though "habitus" may be equivalent to all the senses of [Greek: exis], "habit" is not, at least according to our colloquial usage we commonly denote by "habit" a state formed by habituation. Ethics
- Habituation means that pleasurable experiences usually produce only a temporary lift. MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE
- As the deforestation continues due to the increase in world population, the effect upon habituation is often significant.
- Two groups of rats received 14 sessions of habituation training in context A with a light as the target stimulus.
- Without entering the interval since manipulation as a covariate in the statistical analyses, the findings can have been seriously biased by differences in the duration of habituation to the novel morphology.
