Habituation and recovery make learning more efficient by
A) helping us anticipate what event is about to happen next.
B) focusing our attention on those aspects of the environment we know least about.
C) helping us generalize newly learned behaviors to unfamiliar contexts.
D) influencing the occurrence of stimulus events in the environment.

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Habituation allows us to ignore repeated, irrelevant stimuli, thereby focusing our attention and cognitive resources on novel or changing aspects of the environment. This makes learning more efficient by directing our attention to new information that we have not yet learned about, rather than wasting resources on familiar, unchanging stimuli.

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