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Baby max watches his mother jingle her keys in front of him. after several minutes, he looks away no longer interested. this would indicate that he is habituated to it and is showing a(n) _____ to the stimulus after repeated presentations of the stimulus.

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Tolerance. Because he has been over stimulated from the keys, baby max no longer finds this as amusing. In order to avoid this, the mother would need to mix other stimuli in between the jingling of the keys.
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