Molly attempts to condition her puppy to greet her when she enters the house. She repeatedly pairs her entry to the house with a
treat for the puppy. The puppy eventually acquires this ability, and Molly realizes how irritating it is fro the puppy to run up to her every time she enters the house. She attempts to make the puppy stop, and eventually the puppy no longer feels motivated to greet her when she enters the house. The puppy no longer greeting her when she enters the house is an example of ______.
When you are conditioning a living being, you often need to give them a treat or a motivation to do something that you desire them to do, while she was giving her puppy a treat the puppy was greeting her all the time, not because he wanted to greet her, but because the puppy wanted the treat, as soon as she stopped giving the puppy the treat the puppy starts to loose that conditioning because of the lack of stimuli and the condition gets extinct.
The puppy no longer greetng Molly when she enters the house is an example of extinction. This is because the puppy lacks motivation to greet her when she enters the house because she does not have treats.
