At a New Year's celebration, the first firecracker to explode causes everybody to startle and turn toward the location of the explosion. Later on, after many such explosions, no one seems to react when a firecracker explodes
This is an instance of which of the following?
a) Habituation of the orienting respons
b) Extinction of the orienting response
c) Priming of the vigilance response
d) Decay of the vigilance response
A
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