A Simple Form of Learning That Involves a Decrease in Response

question 81

Multiple Choice

A simple form of learning that involves a decrease in response to repeated or continued stimulation is called

• A) sensitization.
• B) desensitization.
• C) habituation.
• D) dishabituation.

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Definitions:

World of Becoming

In Plato’s metaphysics, the world we live in, the world of change and objects perceived by the senses.

World of Being

In Plato’s metaphysics, the world of ideal Forms, a world that is unchanging, a world we can know only through reason.

Berkeley

Represents George Berkeley, an 18th-century philosopher known for his theory of immaterialism, arguing that material objects exist only in the mind and through perception.

Esse Est Percipi

A Latin phrase meaning "to be is to be perceived," associated with George Berkeley's idealist philosophy which argues that objects only exist to the extent that they are perceived.