James Has Been Studying Habituation in Lab Rats for the Past

question 10

Multiple Choice

James has been studying habituation in lab rats for the past six months. As part of his design, each week of habituation training is followed by a week where no training occurs. Over time, James has been finding that his rats habituate to the experimental stimuli faster than the previous week of habituation training. This result is evidence of which parametric feature of habituation?

• A) savings
• B) dishabituation
• C) frequency
• D) spacing

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