Habituation in a sentence as a noun

I don't think it's just a matter of habituation. It seems like it's physically easier to pull my fingers toward me on the trackpad, than to push them away.

I'm pretty sure that's mostly fairly simple habituation. This is something that's unfamiliar at first - though not hard - and that slows you down.

Disposable nappies are a miracle of habituation. It seems they can deposit bucket loads in them and never know it - at least until they saturate and the dam bursts.

Addiction and habituation are not just down to this effect either. I know a variety of people who have been both daily pot smokers and daily tobacco users.

The issue with modes is that they break habituation. If performing a given UI gesture does one thing in one mode and another thing in another mode, you can't make that gesture a habit.

He also figured out those fallbacks-to-default-mood, which is, again, a mere habituation. Sadly, being smart is not enough.

This is a huge relief to me, as it means I realise that this behaviour isn't something endemic to myself, rather a habituation as a result of the feedback loop I allowed to grow. Step out.

For some reason the control issue doesn't really phase me as much as the habituation of invasive procedures on animals. At least in school kids don't **** the frogs they dissect; it's no more than a desensitized piece of green beef to them.

Unfortunately, on the of the most prominent side effects of amphetamines is tolerance and habituation, then a massive crash in the other direction that can last weeks or months when you stop taking it. I generally find stimulants take more out of me than they give.

I disagree; I'm pretty sure most people would tolerate it just fine after a period of habituation. You say that it's because we don't see it that we can tolerate what happens to animals; I say it's because we don't see it that we feel horrified whenever we happen to catch a glimpse of it.

Piracetam improves memory, not IQ, has greater effect in those with a deficit, and has a subtle effect at best, particularly after habituation sets in.

However once people have tried it, the "natural inclination to not jab yourself with a needle" is quickly overcome with habituation. A substantial gateway to heroin usage is abuse of other opoids such as prescription painkillers.

Make what you want of this but it has lead me to believe that our perception of noise is a function of our state of mind, the ambient noise level and our conditioning/habituation. The takeaway being that it is possible to learn to ignore noise, since in most situations one may not be able to control the source of the noise.

There is definitely a habituation effect. I bought a pair of KRK Rokits a few years ago and got used to listening to everything through them - I bought a second pair for my living room, and virtually all music I hear now comes through one of the pairs of monitors or through a pair of Sennheiser HD 280 headphones.

I believe habituation teaches even many naive users that those indicators cannot always be trusted. Trusting the integrity of a process, after that 4 second threshold, requires something progressive or novel.

It seems to be based on your deluded idea about dosage, but other than that, the ***** differ in some rather significant ways such as abuse potential, habituation, psychoactivity, and so forth.

What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it."

The 1984 audience on the other hand would accept a larger domain of world-changing possibilities, but perhaps have been conditioned to war, and have acknowledged that habituation toward a perpetual state of war was a tool for autocratic government, just as much as a government unchallenged by external threats had freedom to become autocratic. Though the 1984 world has war depicted as distant and a routine part of life, it was a key part of the story, and difference between the two stories might be summed up as the difference between a peacetime dystopia and a wartime dystopia.

Habituation definitions

noun

being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)

See also: addiction dependence dependance dependency

noun

a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions