extinction vs habituation question

[Troyvdg]

A monkey is trained to push a button in response to a bell. Following training, the bell is rung once every minute for 2 days, at which time the monkey no longer pushes the button. This is an example of:

A. extinction
B. habituation *answer

This confuses me, because extinction is the loss of a learned response, while habituation is the loss of an autonomic response.

The explanation states that its not extinction because extinction is the disappearance of a response due to the lack of a stimulus. It says that habituation is correct because what is being observed is the suppression of the monkeys startle response. It says the monkeys response (pushing the button) is the startle response.

ok, wtf😎

currently just brushing it off as a poor question, but what do you guys think?

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[gumdrop16]

A monkey is trained to push a button in response to a bell. Following training, the bell is rung once every minute for 2 days, at which time the monkey no longer pushes the button. This is an example of:

A. extinction
B. habituation *answer

This confuses me, because extinction is the loss of a learned response, while habituation is the loss of an autonomic response.

The explanation states that its not extinction because extinction is the disappearance of a response due to the lack of a stimulus. It says that habituation is correct because what is being observed is the suppression of the monkeys startle response. It says the monkeys response (pushing the button) is the startle response.

ok, wtf😎

currently just brushing it off as a poor question, but what do you guys think?

bad question. makes no sense.

 

[Troyvdg]

haha, ok I'm glad it wasn't just me, thanks for your response

 

[Toofly01]

Okay, this question sucks.

But from what I understand, if an animal has learned something and then ceases to respond to that stimuli, it's extinction... versus habituation which deals with intrinsic behavior. I believe the difference is that extinction deals w/ learned, and habituation deals w/ intrinsic.

There are a surprising (or perhaps, not-so-surprising) number of threads on SDN regarding this question. Try this thread: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=303207

Hope that helps

 

[412smb412]

A monkey is trained to push a button in response to a bell. Following training, the bell is rung once every minute for 2 days, at which time the monkey no longer pushes the button. This is an example of:

A. extinction
B. habituation *answer

This confuses me, because extinction is the loss of a learned response, while habituation is the loss of an autonomic response.

The explanation states that its not extinction because extinction is the disappearance of a response due to the lack of a stimulus. It says that habituation is correct because what is being observed is the suppression of the monkeys startle response. It says the monkeys response (pushing the button) is the startle response.

ok, wtf😎

currently just brushing it off as a poor question, but what do you guys think?

personally i don't see anything wrong with the questions, i just see that they phrased it to see if u were just memorizing or understanding concepts. the monkey is still given the stimulus but over time it does not respond... this is not extinction, it is habituation since there is a decreased response to the same stimulus. extinction would be if they stopped ringing the bell (the response is lost by removing the conditioned stimulus) and then after the pairing is lost they ring the bell and the monkey does nothing. for example the firs time you wear a watch you find it irritating and you scratch your wrist, but over time (the watch is not removed and you wear it everyday) you no longer scratch your hand. note the stimulus is still there but the response has disappeared

 

[torobcheh21]

great point ^ that really cleared it up. thanks!

 

[Troyvdg]

personally i don't see anything wrong with the questions, i just see that they phrased it to see if u were just memorizing or understanding concepts. the monkey is still given the stimulus but over time it does not respond... this is not extinction, it is habituation since there is a decreased response to the same stimulus. extinction would be if they stopped ringing the bell (the response is lost by removing the conditioned stimulus) and then after the pairing is lost they ring the bell and the monkey does nothing. for example the firs time you wear a watch you find it irritating and you scratch your wrist, but over time (the watch is not removed and you wear it everyday) you no longer scratch your hand. note the stimulus is still there but the response has disappeared

habituation is the loss of an autonomic response. the monkey pushing the button clearly isn't an autonomic response (a cat running away at the sound of a bell would be an autonomic response). Pushing a button is something you would have to teach a monkey. That is why it is confusing.
regardless, the question is trash, I disregarded it

 

[jpark1800]

wow you guys know so much. ive never even seen any of this before