Question

Jeremy stops gambling five minutes after his slot machine last paid off, Jessica is still gambling, even though her slot machine hasn't paid off in over an hour. In this example, Jeremy's behavior while Jessica's behavior
a. shows low resistance to extinction; shows high resistance to extinction
b. has been classically conditioned; has been operantly conditioned
c. shows high resistance to extinction; shows low resistance to extinction
d. is controlled by conditioned stimuli; is controlled by unconditioned stimuli

Answer 1

Answer:a. shows low resistance to extinction; shows high resistance to extinction

Explanation:

According to psychology, extinction occurs when a conditioned response is slowly eliminated or weakned which over time will result to that behavior being extinct. This means a conditioned behavior is completely eliminated

An example is when you whistle to a dog all the time to come and get food and the dog starts to drool all time at the thought of whistling associated with food , if you gradually start to whistle without carrying the food with you the dog will stop salivating or drooling.

In classical conditioning, when a conditioned stimulus is provided without an unconditioned stimulus the conditioned response eventually get extinct.

Jeremy is not resistant towards getting rid of the gambling behaviour because when he start gambling and is no longer getting paid off he immediately stops so when an unconditioned stimulus is taken away , he stops gambling and if this keeps happening gradually his behavior of gambling will be extinct.

Jessica on the other side continues even when the unconditioned stimulus (being paid off )is taken away she still continues to gamble so she is resistance towards stoping her gambling behavior.