Habituation vs. Accommodation — What's the Difference?

Habituation is a form of non-associative learning in which an innate (non-reinforced) response to a stimulus decreases after repeated or prolonged presentations of that stimulus. Responses that habituate include those that involve the intact organism (e.g., full-body startle response) or those that involve only components of the organism (e.g., habituation of neurotransmitter release from in vitro Aplysia sensory neurons).

A room, group of rooms, or building in which someone may live or stay

The process of habituating or the state of being habituated.

A convenient arrangement; a settlement or compromise

Physiological tolerance to a drug resulting from repeated use.

The process of adapting or adjusting to someone or something

(Psychology) The decline in responsiveness to a stimulus due to repeated exposure.

The act of accommodating or the state of being accommodated; adjustment.

The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.

Something that meets a need; a convenience.

(psychology) The process of becoming accustomed to an internal or external stimulus, such as a noxious smell or loud noise.

Room and board; lodgings.

The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.

A seat, compartment, or room on a public vehicle.

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

Reconciliation or settlement of opposing views.

A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions

(Physiology) The automatic adjustment in the focal length of the lens of the eye to permit retinal focus of images of objects at varying distances.

A financial favor, such as a loan.

Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.

(physical) Adaptation or adjustment.

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.

A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.

The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.

The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.

(personal) Adaptation or adjustment.

Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.

(countable) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

A loan of money.

An accommodation bill or note.

An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.

(theology) An adaptation or method of interpretation which explains the special form in which the revelation is presented as unessential to its contents, or rather as often adopted by way of compromise with human ignorance or weakness.

The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.

Modification(s) to make one's way of communicating similar to others involved in a conversation or discourse.

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; - followed by to.

Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; - often in the plural; as, the accommodations - that is, lodgings and food - at an inn.

An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement.

The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

A loan of money.

Making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances

A settlement of differences;

In the theories of Jean Piaget: the modification of internal representations in order to accommodate a changing knowledge of reality

Living quarters provided for public convenience;

The act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need

(physiology) the automatic adjustment in focal length of the lens of the eye