Your new roommate is an incredibly good cook. It becomes apparent, however, that your roommate particularly enjoys preparing fish. You eventually get used to the odor and barely notice it but, when you return home after a two-week vacation, you very much notice the odor again. This illustrates ____.
A) re-orientation
B) extinction bursts
C) spontaneous recovery
D) dishabituation

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Dishabituation occurs when a stimulus that has become familiar after repeated exposure suddenly becomes noticeable again, often due to a break or change in the exposure pattern, as described in the scenario with the fish odor.

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