Question

Every Friday, Dr. Cruz would give a quiz in his psychology class. Students quickly learned to be nervous on Friday mornings, just before each quiz. Halfway through the semester, Dr. Cruz stopped giving quizzes on Fridays and the students' anxiety began to diminish with each passing week in which there was no quiz. The decrease in the students' anxiety may be attributed to the process of:____________.A) spontaneous recovery.B) extinction.C) stimulus generalization.D) latent learning.

Answer 1

B) extinction.

Step-by-step explanation:

As per the Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA), extinction refers to a method in which reinforcement is withdrawn for problem behavior to reduce or remove instances of negative behaviors. It explains the reasons for any organism to prohibit previously conditioned behavior. This technique makes the action counterproductive and thus it will occur less and less until it stops entirely.