Frieda used to be afraid of dental visits because she associated the sound of the drill with pain.However, Frieda's new dentist is "painless" and the sound of the drill is no longer associated with pain.Consequently, Frieda finds her fear of dental visits has disappeared.Frieda's change in responsiveness to dental visits illustrates the classical conditioning process referred to as:
A)extinction
B)spontaneous recovery
C)conditioned inhibition
D)second-order conditioning

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Frieda's fear response (conditioned response) to the sound of the drill (conditioned stimulus) has been extinguished (eliminated) because it is no longer paired with pain (unconditioned stimulus).

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