Habituation: Decrease In Response To Piaget's Theory

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Habituation is a method that might be used to explore predictions of Piaget’s theory. 2a. Habituation is the decrease in response to a stimulus after receptiveness. For example, if you live in front of a train station, at first all you hear is the train when it arrives to the station. However, after a while you tune out the noise because eventually you become accustomed to the sound of the train arriving to the station. Dishabituation is responding to an old stimulus as if it were the first time. Habituation is able to help researchers test cognitive capacity of infants because it displays how an infant is able to process mental activities that involve knowledge, comprehension and communication. 2b. An alternative technique that could be used