repeated exposure
Multiple encounters over time
Repeated exposure is encountering something multiple times over a period.
The term appears in psychology, where repeated exposure to a stimulus often increases familiarity and liking—the mere exposure effect.
In health contexts, repeated exposure to toxins or allergens compounds their effects.
In learning, repeated exposure to material aids retention: Repeated exposure to vocabulary helps language acquisition.
- habituationDiminished reaction over time
- familiarityKnowledge through experience
- sensory adaptationDiminished response to constant stimuli
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
- desensitizationReduced response over time
priming · learning · rote learning · practice · frequency · advertising · brainwashing · saturation · drills · routine · tolerance · acclimatization · rehearsal · bombardment · immersion · broken record · overexposure · numbing
- exposureoverexposure, underexposure, aperture, ISO, shutter speed
- allergiesallergy, allergies, allergen, allergens, allergist
- toxic effectstoxicity, lead poisoning, mercury poisoning, arsenic poisoning, neurotoxicity
repeated exposuresingle instance
first exposure · initial contact · one-off · rare occurrence
repeated exposureavoidance
Deliberate keeping away
protection · insulation · quarantine · seclusion · sheltering
repeat, repeated, repeating, repeats, repeatable, repeatability, repetition, repetitions, repetitive