Every Friday, Dr. Cruz would give a quiz in his video gaming design class. Students quickly learned to be nervous on Friday morn
ings, just before each quiz. Halfway through the semester, Dr. Cruz stopped giving quizzes on Fridays because he did not wish for students to hate him and over time the students' anxiety began to diminish with each passing week in which there was no quiz until they no longer felt anxious on Friday mornings. The decrease in the students' anxiety may be attributed to the process of what Pavlov referred to as:
Pavlov referred to this behavior as extinction. It is the gradual weakening of a conditioned conditioned response that causes the behavior to decrease or disappear.
Explanation: it is reciprocal process through which an individual or group with distinctive qualities, such as idiosyncratic values or customs, becomes identified as one that is not accepted fully into the larger group.
