What is dishabituation? Why is it so important?

What will be an ideal response?


Dishabituation is the recovery of a habituated response as a result of the presentation of the sensitizing stimulus. Essentially, the arousing effect of the stimulus causes a habituated response to return.

Psychology

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Random assignment is essential to establishing causality because it

a. permits researchers to verify that they have a diverse and representative sample of participants. b. reduces the possibility that individual characteristics of the participants produced the observed results. c. increases the external validity of the experiment and virtually eliminates issues of reliability. d. allows researchers to determine whether or not their operational definitions reflect the variables of interest.

Psychology

A wrestler gets poked in the eye. His color vision will be most affected if the poke damages the:

A. lens B. rods C. cones D. cornea

Psychology

If two-year-old Kelly had an internal working model, she would a. believe that inanimate objects have the ability to move and breathe

b. expect her mom to respond when she is upset. c. talk to herself out loud. d. form an insecure attachment to her parents.

Psychology

The __________ hypothesis suggests that bilinguals' constant need to monitor and control their languages leads to benefits in nonverbal cognition.

a. adaptive control b. dual route c. source monitoring d. weaker links

Psychology