When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Repeated exposure to a stimulus without reinforcement leads to extinction of the response.
- In plain terms
- If you keep showing the trigger without the result, the reaction stops.
- What can you take from it?
- Consistency matters; without reinforcement, learned behaviors fade.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Which habits fade without reinforcement?
- How do you sustain motivation?
Another view
Some responses may not fully extinguish and can return unexpectedly.
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Thus, the purposeful relationship of phenomena is based on the specificity of the stimuli, that correspond to similarly specific reactions.
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