___________________ refers to gradual weakening and disappearance of conditioned behavior when it is no longer followed by a reinforcer.

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• A ________________ reinforcer is a stimulus or event that is naturally or inherently reinforcing for a given species, such as food, water, or other biological necessities.
• ________________ refers to the presentation of an event or stimulus following a behavior that acts to decrease the likelihood of the behavior being repeated.
• _____________ is the tendency of an animal to revert to its instinctive behaviors that can interfere with the performance of an operantly conditioned response.
• _________________ is the operant conditioning procedure of selectively reinforcing successively closer approximations of a goal behavior until the goal behavior is displayed.
• ___________________ focus was on the scientific study of observable behavior that could be objectively measured and verified.
• Psychologists who study the diversity of human behavior in different cultural settings and countries are called _______________ psychologists.
• ____________________ is defined as any relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs as a result of practice or experience.
• The Austrian physician who emphasized unconscious processes rather than overt observable behavior was ________________.
• _________________ is Skinner’s term for an actively emitted behavior that operates on the environment to produce consequences.
• ___________________ is a specialty area that helps develop the instructional methods and materials used to train people in both educational and work settings and studies how people of all ages learn.