AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Acquisition of extinction is the initial learning that occurs when conditioned responses are declining within an extinction training session. This is followed by a consolidation phase, lasting several hours, in which physiological and molecular processes stabilize a long-term memory for extinction.

Detailed explanation-2: -The process of learning a conditioned response is called acquisition. Usually, conditioning is faster if only a short time elapses between the presentation of the CS and the UCS. The reverse process-that is, unlearning-can occur also and is called extinction.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is extinction? Extinction is the permanent end to the existence of a species. Through the vast expanse of geological time, extinction has been the fate of most kinds of living things on earth. The background rate of extinction has been more or less constant at about one species per million each year.

Detailed explanation-4: -Extinction doesn’t mean the behavior is gone forever. Spontaneous recovery is the sudden return of the previously extinct behavior.