Question

After Pavlov's dogs became conditioned to salivate at the sound of the metronome, he experimented with sounding the metronome and then failing to present the dogs with any food right away. Soon they stopped salivating to the sound of the metronome. This represents the process called ________.

Answer 1

Answer:

extinction                      

Explanation:

Ivan Pavlov stated that behavior which is being conditioned with an outside unconditioned stimuli tends to extinct after the withdrawal of the unconditioned stimuli.

Extinction: It is defined as the deletion of formerly delivered unconditioned reinforcers or stimuli. However, this is also defined as the absence of an eventuality between reinforcer or response.

Example: In Pavlov's classic experiment- the dog was conditioned to salivate after hearing the sound of a bell whereas, In operant conditioning- extinction occurs after a response is no longer reinforced backing a particular stimulus.