Kathy is classically conditioned to fear the toilet flushing while she is in the shower because the flush causes a surge of hot water. Kathy showers at her parent’s house, someone flushes the toilet, and she does not get burned. Still, when showering back at home, the toilet flushes and Kathy immediately feels a surge of fear. This example best illustrates the fact that extinction a. forms the basis for non-associative learning when applied to novel situations.
b. helps readapt old learning strategies to novel problems.
c. is an adaptive response to delete information from memory.
d. reduces the strength of an association, but does not eliminate it.