experimental extinction

1. 1.

   a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus

   Synonymsextinction

   Broaderconditioning

Questions about experimental extinction

What does experimental extinction mean?

experimental extinction means "a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus".

What is another word for experimental extinction?

Close synonyms include extinction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is experimental extinction a common word?

experimental extinction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.