The tendency for an organism to respond less intensely to a stimulus the more it is presented is termed:
A) object permanence.
B) conditioning.
C) assimilation.
D) habituation.
D) habituation.
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a. redintegration. b. memory decay. c. disuse. d. cue-dependent forgetting.
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