Alex was being shown a sequence of objects which were of the same size and they all resembled a square.After sometime Alex lost interest in those objects.When they showed him a triangular object it suddenly caught his attention and he started looking at those objects again.This change in response in Alex is referred to as _____.
A)sustained attention
B)orientation
C)dishabituation
D)visual preference

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The change in response in Alex is referred to as dishabituation. This term is used to describe a change in an organism's response to a stimulus when a new stimulus is introduced after habituation to the old stimulus. In this case, Alex became habituated to the sequence of square objects, but the introduction of the triangular object caused a change in his response.

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