AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Habituation can occur with our non-human animals as well. Maybe your pet startled and barked the first time you turned on the electric can opener but over the next few times of hearing it, your dog began to just look in the direction of the noise, and soon began ignoring it all together. That is habituation happening.

Detailed explanation-2: -Habituation is the gradual loss of responsiveness to a stimulus as a result of repeated exposure to that stimulus. In order to produce effective habituation (of, for example, a fear-eliciting stimulus like a loud noise), the trainer should present the stimulus in a weakened form until the dog exhibits little fear.

Detailed explanation-3: -Habituation is one of the common desensitization methods, this method is based on the idea that if you expose your horse to enough scary objects that are in the same general category that eventually the horse will see all things in that category as non-threatening.

Detailed explanation-4: -Just like their humans, dogs are incredibly adaptable. Habituation is what we call the decreased response to a stimulus after repeated presentation.