habituation

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The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated
decreased response to repeated stimulation; hypothetically, a short-term (minutes or hours) decremental central nervous system (CNA) process; it interacts wit the incremental CNS process of sensitization and yields a final behavioral outcome
Reduction of an animal's behavioral response to a stimulus, as a result of a lack of reinforcement during continual exposure to the stimulus. Habituation is usually considered a form of learning in which behaviours not needed are eliminated. It may be separated from most other forms of decreased response on the basis of permanence; the habituated animal either does not resume its earlier reaction to the stimulus after a period of no stimulus, or, if the normal reaction is resumed on reexposure to the stimulus, it wanes more quickly than before. Vital responses (e.g., flight from a predator) cannot be truly habituated
Reduction in the strength of a reflexive response produced by repeated presentation of the eliciting stimulus
being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
A decrease in responsiveness to a specific stimulus as a result of repeated experience with it
{i} act of making one accustomed to, familiarization
a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions
The ability to perform acts, or lines of actions, without requiring active or prior thought by the actor
A decrease in responding to repeated presentations of the same stimulus
accustomedness
assuefaction
habituate
To turn into a habit, to make habitual

He would eventually habituate his use of opiates.

habituate
{v} to accustom, to use often
habituate
take or consume (regularly or habitually); "She uses drugs rarely"
habituate
{f} make one accustomed to, familiarize
habituate
To settle as an inhabitant
habituate
make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music
habituate
Firmly established by custom; formed by habit; habitual
habituate
To turn into a habit
habituate
To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize
habituate
be/become habituated to (doing) sth to be used to something or gradually become used to it
habituate
make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music"
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