In the video “The Developing Child,” things such as habituation, and dishabituation were discussed. Habituation is a form of learning in which an organism decreases or ceases to respond to a stimulus after repeated presentation.Habituation usually refers to a reduction in innate behaviours, whereas dishabituation is when we respond to an old stimulus as if it were new. When we repeatedly experience a stimulus, we get used to it, and stop responding the same way we did when we first experienced it. We become habituated to it and stop paying attention until we are given a new stimulus. And then when we are once again given the original stimulus, we respond to it with a renewed interest. Our previous habituation to it has been reversed. The
