Question

every time someone flushes the toilet the shower becomes very hot and causes a person to jump back. Over time, the person begins to jump back automatically after hearing the toilet flush before the hot water changes.

Tell how an extinction would occur in this example? what is the extinticion ?

Answer 1

Every time someone flushes the toilet the shower becomes very hot and causes a person to jump back. Over time, the person begins to jump back automatically after hearing the toilet flush before the hot water changes.

Tell how an extinction would occur in this example? what is the extinticion ?

ANSWER- In the given situation/ example, hot water is US, jump back because of hot water is UR, toilet flush is CS and jumping back because of hearing sound of toilet flush is CR.

Further, "Jumping back automatically" is the extinction.

After some time, there will be no longer an automatic jump because the same/ repitition/ monotonous thing does not trigger the behaviour of jumping automatically.

Extinction is weakening of non-reinforced conditioned response. It is evaporation/ disappearance of a previously learned action linked to other entity/ event.