Compare and contrast sensitization and habituation.
What will be an ideal response?
Habituation: Decreased responsiveness with repeated exposures to a stimulus.
Declines with experience.
The weaker the stimulus the more rapid the habituation.
Depends upon specific characteristics of the stimulus.
Sensitization: Increase responsiveness to an environmental stimulus.
Properties of the stimulus do not affect sensitization.
Sensitization is lost rapidly after the sensitizing event ends--is always temporary.
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