To test whether newborns can visually discriminate between various shapes and colors, psychologists have made use of the process of

The answer is the process of habituation.

Explanation:

Habituation refers to a psychological learning process in which it exists a decrease in response regarding a specific stimulus because a person has been exposed to it a lot of times. According to this concept, an animal or a human must learn to pay no attention to a certain stimulus when this one is repeated many times.

Habituation is an important process related to biological systems. Without it, we could not identify the kind of information that is useful, as well as meaningful, from the irrelevant ones.  

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