0 the process of people or animals becoming used to something, so that they no longer find it unpleasant or think it is a threat:
When institutional rules are drawn upon with sufficient regularity, they can become embodied via a process of habituation resulting in the adoption of a habit.
The response of the mice to an unfamiliar environment was assessed over a two-day period and after habituation.
Factors such as fatigue, fear, hunger, and habituation to a recently repeated vocal action help explain why this is so.
Discrepancies between this study and earlier investigations are discussed with reference to differences between habituation and preferential looking tasks.
Recent investigations with habituation tasks and with the preferential looking task have provided a much improved body of evidence in this area.
This too he saw in terms of political culture, as reflected in architecture and the habituations of the built environment.
All, because of social habituation, undervalue central human capabilities that they later come to value.
Habituation in early and later childhood is therefore likely to reflect different underlying processes.
