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Also known as GO:0046959, psychophysiologic habituation, psychophysiological habituation, manolete, Habituation, Psychophysiologic

Habituation is a form of non-associative learning in which an organism's non-reinforced response to an inconsequential stimulus decreases after repeated or prolonged presentations of that stimulus. For example, organisms may habituate to repeated sudden loud noises when they learn that these have no consequences.