Question

In research on infant perception, a common research strategy presents an infant

with some stimulus until he stops responding to it. Then a new stimulus that differs
from the first in some specific respect (e.g., color) is presented to see if the infant
now responds. This strategy involves the use of what basic process?
a. preference
b. scanning
c. constancy
d. dishabituation
e. conditioning

Answer 1

Answer: D. Dishabituation.

Explanation: Dishabituation could simply be called a reawakening process whereby stimulus or signals which has gone into extinct in an infant's memory. The process of stopping or ensuring that an infant desist from responding to a certain stimulus or behavior is Called the HABITUATION process. The processes of reawakening or causing the stimulus to evoke after the infant has stopped responding to the stimulus is called the DISHABITUATION process which may involve tweaking a certain part or appearance of earlier habituated stimulus before dishabituation.

Answer 2

d) dishabituation

Step-by-step explanation:

In psychology and processes of learning, the term dishabituation refers to the phenomenon that occurs when we respond to an old stimulus as if it was new again. In other words, we have been habituated to a stimulus (since it has been presented to us too many times) and then a change on it creates a new response as if it was new again.

In this example, researchers present an infant with some stimulus until he stops responding to it (he habituates to it) and then they present a new stimulus that differs from the first in some specific respect and see how they respond. In other words, they try to see if the infants respond in a different way to this subtle change as if they were presented with a new stimulus. Thus, they are using the process of dishabituation.