What is the diffrence between habituation and latent inhibition?
Actually the main one is in how they are measured; in both cases a stimulus is repeatedly presented to the animal first. Habituation — reduction in response originally elicited by the stimulus Latent inhibition — reduction in ability of the stimulus to function as a CS (i.e. learning is slower after the animal has been exposed to the stimulus alone) Pearce talks about some work where the orienting response is measured and it’s possible to look at how this habituates and how it is related to the development of latent inhibition to a stimulus, in order to see whether latent inhibition and habituarion reflect the same process.
