Habituation

Infants demonstrate an other-race effect. This is when people show facial recognition errors when a target face is from an unfamiliar racial group, rather than their own racial group. This is known as the other-race effect (Meissner & Brigham, 2001). The question is: is the other race effect present from birth or does it develop based on experience? It has been demonstrated that selectivity based on ethnic facial differences emerges very early in life. However, researchers have…

learns to forever associate killing with benefits. In operant conditioning, certain behavior is reinforced through rewards; thus, the individual in question learns to associate the behavior with good feelings (Myers 267). Similar to the effects of habituation, this process, even if inadvertent, substantially increases one’s tendency to act in certain ways. Macbeth, having been constantly praised for killing hundreds of people at a time, learns to associate the act of killing with positive…

themselves starts in early learning as a puppy and the environment the dog is raised in. Nonassociative learning is learning about a stimulus, such as sight or sound in the external world. Habituation is when a dog gets used to a certain stimulus such as the sound of a washing machine. Sensitization is the opposite of habituation. Associative learning is the relationship between two pieces of information that takes place one right after the other. Observational learning is done by watching how…

which limits them to live and develop properly as a young adult. In one example, he says that “Students with PTSD should of course get treatment, but they should not try to avoid normal life, with its many opportunities for habituation...And they’d better get their habituation done in college, because the world beyond college will be far less willing to accommodate requests for trigger warnings and opt-outs.” With that being said, the only way to adjust from something, is to learn and move on…

experimenter in the third and final trial. At the end of all three trails, only 17 participant’s results were collected. The materials used were pencil, or pen, three data sheets per person. The experimenter also had a marker. To study the effects of habituation in humans, 17 participants performed a memory test 20 times in three different phases. They were told to listen to nine numbers, after the ninth number participants…

virtue is teachable and can be obtained through time and experience; while moral virtue forms through habituation and constant practice. Aristotle states that moral virtue cannot form in man by nature since everything made by nature fails to change to another side by habituation. He concludes that rather than born to be moral or immoral, people have the capacity to be potentially virtue through habituation, which means that they are already able to exploit aptitude beforehand and they only have…

Habituation (sometimes called “desensitization”) is “limited responsiveness with repeated stimulation” (Myers 264). In essence, after being repeatedly exposed to a certain one will react less to its occurrence. Ultimately, the process of desensitization makes individuals more likely to repeat a certain act, such as killing. With this in mind, Macbeth’s actions are not entirely atypical, especially considering the various external factors involved. If the principle of habituation is correct…

In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle emphasizes the importance of developing one’s morality and virtue. He defines moral virtue as having the ability to put one’s capacities to work, excellently. Aristotle’s idea of morality and virtue is closely connected with his definition of the highest good, which is the being in the activity of the soul. Aristotle presents his interpretation of the highest good in a way that values the full use of human capacities. A key aspect of his argument is that humans…

Habituation is the psychological phenomenon of a decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated presentations, also known as the “tune out” phenomenon. A person might consider the ticking of a clock in a silent room as annoying but as time passes, the person might not hear it anymore or it might become soothing to them. In “Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House”, Billy Collins’s attitude towards the barking dog changes from being irritated by the incessant barking in the…

vison is not very good, however just a few weeks after birth, they can start defining shapes and objects. Perceptual development involves three important functions: Multisensory, Habituation, and Sensory Integration. Multisensory is information that is generally received through more than one sensory system at a time. Habituation is a term that refers to a person’s ability to concentrate on a specific task while ignoring everything else. Sensory integration is a process that involves translation…