A baby who experiences 100 presentations of a high-pitched tone no longer reacts to the sound by stopping the sucking response.When a new low-pitched tone is presented,the baby stops sucking.This cessation of sucking caused by the new tone is called

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Dishabituation refers to the return of a habituated response to a stimulus after a new stimulus is presented. In this scenario, the baby had habituated to the high-pitched tone but stopped sucking when a new, low-pitched tone was presented, indicating dishabituation. Disinhibition refers to the release of an inhibitory control, nonadaptation means the lack of response or change adaptation and a conditioned response is a learned response to a previously neutral stimulus.

A Baby Who Experiences 100 Presentations of a High-Pitched Tone