Ken used to drool at the smell of peanut butter cookies as they baked, and he couldn’t wait to sink his teeth into that first co
okie. However, Ken’s new roommate makes terrible peanut butter cookies, and the smell of them baking is no longer associated with a wonderful taste experience. Consequently, Ken finds that the smell of the cookies no longer makes him drool in anticipation. This illustrates the classical conditioning process known as:
Extinction is the process of classical conditioning. As the name indicated, it is the process in which any response gets extinct due to not presented some stimulus. It occurs when a conditioned stimulus is presented without any unconditioned stimulus or can say conditioned response.
Thus in the above statement, Ken used to drool the smell of peanut butter cookies as they bread and he could not stop himself sink his teeth in the cookies. But later on through the process he eventually no longer makes drool in anticipation.
