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In classical conditioning, extinction is defined as:
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- 1The spontaneous recovery of a response after a rest period
- 2The tendency to give a response to one stimulus and not to another
- 3The use of an unconditioned stimulus as a signal for the conditioned stimulus
- 4The gradual weakening of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly without the unconditioned stimulus✓
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The gradual weakening of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is presented repeatedly without the unconditioned stimulus
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