habituation

IPA: hʌbˈɪtʃuˈeɪʃʌn

The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
(psychology) The process of becoming accustomed to an internal or external stimulus, such as a noxious smell or loud noise.

Examples of "habituation" in Sentences

That lack of response, called habituation, is primitive learning.
This habit is called virtue, and the success of this habituation is also called virtue.
But if the ad had been repeated, audiences would have grown inured to the threat, a psychological effect called habituation.
Tom found that spaced repetition converted the memory for short-term habituation and sensitization to longer-lasting memories.
Pedreira EM, Romano A, Hermitte G, Maldonado H (1998) Context-US association as a determinant of long-term habituation in the crab
For example, they wrote, "Will someone show long-term habituation to consecutive meals of cheese pizza, pepperoni pizza and mushroom pizza?"
They warn that in many places, messages are broadcast with such frequency that their actual meaning is blocked out by listeners, in a psychological phenomenon known as "habituation".
"There is an actual psychological theory called habituation, which states that when people are together almost every day and get used to that person, their presence no longer elicits a feel-good response."
If they are exposed to the vibrations every 30 seconds, however, they eventually get used to them and stop responding (it generally takes 10 to 12 stimulations), through a process called habituation - much as people living close to a railway track eventually stop noticing the sound of passing trains.