Extinction refers to the process of:
A) preventing the avoidance response to ensure that the individual sees that the negative consequence will not occur.
B) removing a negative event in order to decrease the probability of a response.
C) unlearning a learned response because the aspect of the environment that originally caused the learning changes.
D) providing a negative consequence of a behavior in order to decrease the probability of the behavior.

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Extinction refers to the process in which a learned response is unlearned because the aspect of the environment that originally caused the learning changes. This means that the behavior is no longer reinforced in the same way it was before, leading to a decrease or disappearance of the response over time. Choices A, B, and D refer to other types of operant conditioning processes but not extinction.

Extinction Refers to the Process Of