Overview
Extinction and recovery of conditioned responses are key concepts in understanding how learning and behavior change over time. Extinction occurs when a conditioned response diminishes due to the absence of reinforcement, while spontaneous recovery can lead to the re-emergence of that response after ...
Key Terms
Example: Salivating when hearing a bell after it has been associated with food.
Example: A dog stops salivating when the bell is rung without food.
Example: A dog salivates again at the sound of the bell after a break.
Example: Reintroducing food with the bell to make the dog salivate again.
Example: Food causing salivation in dogs.
Example: A bell before it is associated with food.
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intermediateLearning Theories
Different theories explaining how people learn and acquire new behaviors.
intermediateKey Concepts
Conditioned ResponseExtinctionSpontaneous RecoveryReconditioning