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Responses

Response parameters

Interresponse time Response amplitude Response duration Response frequency Response generalization Response inhibition Response latency Response probability Response set Response variability

Types of responses

Conditioned responses Emotional responses Mediated responses Orientating responses Reflexes Unconditioned responses

Related topics

Reaction time Response bias Response cost Stimulus-response model This box: view • talk • edit

Orienting responses are learned behaviors that prepare an organism to perceive movel stimuli. Examples would be the turning of the head, or standing still in order to improve hearing. In the 1950s the orienting response was studied systematically by the Russian scientist Eugene Sokolov, who documented the phenomenon called "habituation", referring to a gradual "familiarity effect" and reduction of the orienting response with repeated stimulus presentations.

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• Classical conditioning
• Orienting reflexes

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