"Everyone on Main Street suddenly fell silent when the outlaw Jesse James rode into town." This statement is analogous to the _____ procedure in classical conditioning.

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Conditioned suppression refers to a situation where a conditioned stimulus (CS) that predicts an aversive event leads to a suppression of ongoing behavior. In the analogy, the appearance of Jesse James (akin to a CS predicting something bad) causes everyone to stop what they're doing (a suppression of behavior).

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