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VCE Stuff => VCE Science => VCE Mathematics/Science/Technology => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Psychology => Topic started by: sillysmile on October 14, 2010, 09:31:53 pm
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so which alternative do you believe is correct?
Question 30
Marc often jumps when he is startled. After quite a number of times, he begins to jump less and less. This is an instance of
A.
extinction.
B.
habituation.
C.
spontaneous recovery.
D.
a conditioned reflex.
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B for sure
habituation is the simplest form of all learning, and merely represents becomming accustomed to a stimulus in the environment, so much so that you cease to respond to it.
if I'm wrong lisachem is yet again untrustworthy
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Do we even need to know habituation?
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it was B, you are correct..
I have never before heard of habituation as a form of learning.
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it was B, you are correct..
I have never before heard of habituation as a form of learning.
erghhhh. It's only in the heinemann textbook (Don't worry y'all I've got my sister's copy of grivas to back me up ;) ) which is absolute shit so I doubt you'd need to know it, not really a difficult concept anyway. Just think of living next to railway tracks eventually you would ignore the sound..
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Do we even need to know habituation?
No we dont. its not mentioned on the study design. it was on the last one.
but probz good idea to know about it.
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habituation is on the next study design, but not this one.
It is a form of learning, although it's classified as a non-associate learning (contrast to classical and operant conditioning, which are associative).