Previous experience with extinction is most likely to _____the persistence of responding when an extinction procedure is suddenly implemented.
A) decrease
B) increase
C) be unrelated to
D) first decrease and then increase

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Previous experience with extinction tends to decrease the persistence of responding when an extinction procedure is suddenly implemented, as the organism has learned from the previous experience that the behavior no longer results in reinforcement.

Previous Experience with Extinction Is Most Likely to _____The Persistence