Sentences with phrase «as habituation»

Definitions of different types of learning, such as habituation, classical conditioning and operant conditioning.

It's a phenomenon known as habituation.

The cell thus learned not to fear a harmless substance after being confronted with it on several occasions, a phenomenon that the scientists refer to as habituation.

Not exact matches

The inherent flaw in this method is habituation: The brain gets used to new odors, and stops responding to them as the novelty decreases.

Wherever and whenever there has been intense intellectual activity in the Church a theological school has arisen, while institutions possessing the external appearance of such schools but devoid of reflective life have quickly revealed themselves as training establishments for the habituation of apprentices in the skills of a clerical trade rather than as theological schools.

Another angle to analyze state behaviour is through what Weber categorized as s key orientation of social action: tradition, manifested through the habituation of long practice.

As rodents prefer to spend more time with novel objects than familiar ones, the researchers first exposed the mice to two identical objects for habituation (cones or pyramids) and later measured the animals attention towards a novel object with different shape.

What the current debate proves is that every new step that had been declared as the last step has lead to a further step after it has been legitimised by sufficient habituation.

The study identifies new components of consumer ethnocentrism, establishing, in consultation with other research on the topic, five distinct dimensions in the process: prosociality, in which the interest of one's country is more important than one's own; cognition, or interpreting the world from the point of view of one's own ethnic group; insecurity, or regarding foreign products as a threat to the domestic economy; reflexiveness, meaning that one's ethnocentrism is automatically activated; and habituation, in which ethnocentrism becomes a habit.

Together with Roman Wittig, I co-direct the Tai Chimpanzee Project, Tai National Park, Ivory Coast, which currently has three habituated chimpanzee groups with a fourth under habituation, as well as one habituated sooty mangabey group.

Guests on Asila Africa's three - night trip will have a rare chance to join a habituation team as it accustoms chimpanzees to the presence of humans....