Dishabituate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /dɪsəˈbɪtʃueɪt/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Dishabituate is a verb meaning (intransitive) To respond (to a stimulus) with dishabituation.
Meaning
(intransitive) To respond (to a stimulus) with dishabituation.
More Meanings
- To reach a state of dishabituation.
Example Sentences
Separate experiments show that infants habituated to repeated occurrences of one object will dishabituate to the presentation of a new object (Xu and Carey 1996, p. 136).
Word Forms
- dishabituates
- dishabituating
- dishabituated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unhabituate, disuse, disaccustom, decondition, disinhibit, diswont.
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