Habituation: Basic Learning Process

Habituation: Basic Learning Process
Learning
Learning is typically defined as a relatively permanent change in behavior (or behavior potential) that results from one’s experiences. It is change – in thoughts, perceptions, or reactions to the environment – that is neither programmed by the genes nor due to maturation. The capacity to learn is present at birth and strongly affects development and adaptation throughout the life span. There are four fundamentals and relatively simple types of learning and one of it is habituation.

Habituation
Student of infant development have attached much significant to a simple, often overlooked form of learning called habituation, or learning not to response a stimulus that is repeated over and over. Habituation might be thought of as learning to be bored by the familiar (for example, the continual ticking of a clock or the flickering of a fluorescent light). We might soon be overloaded if we reacted to everything that came along in life despite having seed it countless times before. It seems adaptive to reserve attention for novel experiences. From birth, human habituate to repeatedly presented lights, sounds, or smell; such stimuli are somehow recognized as “old hat”. Habituation: Basic Learning Process