If you ring the bell many times and do not follow it with lemon juice, Johnny's expectancy that the bell will precede the lemon juice will weaken.As it does, he will lose his tendency to salivate when he hears the bell because which of the following has occurred?
A) stimulus generalization
B) extinction
C) spontaneous recovery
D) stimulus discrimination

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Extinction is the gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a conditioned response (in this case, salivation) when the conditioned stimulus (the ringing bell) is repeated without being followed by the unconditioned stimulus (lemon juice).

If You Ring the Bell Many Times and Do Not