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  1. n. A way of responding to old stimuli as if they were new.Boyd, D & Bee, H (2006). Lifespan Development 4th ed. London: Pearson

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  • “The preferential looking time paradigm, also known as the dishabituation paradigm, is used to study human infants 'understanding of the physical and social world (Baillargeon & DeVos 1991; Spelke”

    Animal Cognition

  • “Recall that dishabituation paradigms involve showing the subject a stimulus until it no longer holds the subject's attention, and then showing them one of two alternative stimuli.”

    Animal Cognition

  • “And one of the problems with using habituation as a dieting strategy would be that people also show dishabituation.”

    NPR Topics: News

  • “... the data indicate that habituation and dishabituation

    Eric R. Kandel - Autobiography

  • “The dishabituation reflects the infant's expectation that the screen's rotation will be blocked by the occluded object).”

    Nonconceptual Mental Content

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