Niko was hit by a line drive, and afterward he would duck whenever he heard the crack of a bat hitting a baseball.After hearing that sound many times without ever getting hit again by a ball, Niko no longer ducks at the sound of a hit.This is best explained by:
A)spontaneous recovery
B)observational learning
C)extinction
D)conditioned inhibition

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Extinction occurs when a conditioned response gradually disappears when the conditioned stimulus is presented without the unconditioned stimulus. In this case, the sound of the bat hitting the ball is the conditioned stimulus, and being hit by the ball is the unconditioned stimulus. Niko's conditioned response was to duck when he heard the sound of the bat hitting the ball, but over time, when the conditioned stimulus (sound of the bat hitting the ball) was presented without the unconditioned stimulus (getting hit by the ball), the conditioned response (ducking) gradually disappeared.

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