People who move into an apartment near railroad tracks are awakened at night each time they hear a train go by. After about a week, they can sleep through the night, even though the trains continue to run on the same schedule. The change in their sleeping behavior is an example of Group of answer choices

classical

conditioning

imprinting

habituation

insight

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Alina Odonnell

Social Studies

7 July, 15:43

People who move into an apartment near railroad tracks are awakened at night each time they hear a train go by. After about a week, they can sleep through the night, even though the trains continue to run on the same schedule. The change in their sleeping behavior is an example of Group of answer choices

classical

conditioning

imprinting

habituation

insight

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Frau Frau · Answer 1

Habituation

Explanation:

Habituation occurs whenever people, or even other living organisms are exposed to any repetitive stimuli until the people or the animal, gets desensitized.

Thompson and Spencer, (1966) were able to display 9 criteria that shows whether somebody is having a habituation or not.

But for this question, the example of getting asleep shows a pattern of habituation since the train has to follow a time table, which reinforces the frequency and the desensitization.