When the veterinarian advised an owner to feed her dog in the morning instead of in the evening,it took several days for the dog to stop salivating late in the afternoon around its previous dinnertime.The gradual decrease in salivation across days is an example of:
A)spontaneous recovery.
B)extinction.
C)generalization.
D)second-order conditioning.

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The gradual decrease in salivation across days suggests that the behavior of salivating in the evening has been extinguished. Extinction refers to the gradual decrease in the frequency or strength of a behavior when the behavior is no longer reinforced.

When the Veterinarian Advised an Owner to Feed Her Dog