Question

Ken used to drool at the smell of peanut butter cookies as they baked, and he couldn't wait to sink his teeth into that first cookie. However, Ken's new roommate makes terrible peanut butter cookies, and the smell of them baking is no longer associated with a wonderful taste experience. Consequently, Ken finds that the smell of the cookies no longer makes him drool in anticipation. This illustrates the classical conditioning process known as

Answer 1

extinction

Step-by-step explanation:

In classical conditioning extinction occurs when the appearance of a conditioned response diminishes or disappears. In the context of classical conditioning, this happens when a conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with an unconditioned stimulus. An example of this can be seen in the question above, where the smell of baking cookies encouraged Ken to crave the cookie to the point of drooling, but when he began to taste bad-tasting cookies, that stimulus disappeared.