What Do We Call the Gradual Weakening and Disappearance of a Tendency

question 77

Multiple Choice

What do we call the gradual weakening and disappearance of a tendency to make a conditioned response

• A) stimulus discrimination
• B) extinction 
• C) spontaneous recovery
• D) higher-order conditioning

Explore various psychological and social influence techniques, including the lowball technique, reciprocity norm, and foot-in-the-door technique.

Understand the concepts of prejudice, discrimination, and ethnocentrism, and how attitudes towards in-groups and out-groups are formed and maintained.

Identify the impact of attributions on people's perceptions of others, including the fundamental attribution error.

Explore how social influences can modify attitudes and behaviors, including through observational learning and persuasion techniques.

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Definitions:

Formation

The process of being formed or coming into being; in geology, it refers to a body of rock with a particular set of characteristics.

Reaction

A procedure where substances combine, leading to the creation of new substances.

Yield

The amount of product produced in a chemical reaction, typically expressed as a percentage of the theoretical maximum based on the reactants used.

Carbonyl

A functional group consisting of a carbon atom double-bonded to an oxygen atom, found in aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, and their derivatives.