As a child, Jordan jumped excitedly when the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song started playing on the television, receiving laughter and attention from adults for the excited jumping. Now that Jordan is a teenager, adults no longer laugh at the excited jumping, so Jordan has stopped doing it. This scenario illustrates the process of ____________.

Respuesta :

Answer:

growing up.

Explanation:

honestly, it sucks to grow up. because, as seen in this scenario, people stop caring about small things as a teen or adult that would be funny to see people do as a kid.

Answer:

"Extinction"

Explanation:

In Psychology the process of extinction is a behavioral phenomenon in which a conditioned response (think of Pavlov's dogs, the dogs hear the bell they associate with food and it makes them drool) is weakened and the behavior lessens. So for the example using Jordan his conditioned response (to jump excitedly when Spongebob starts) has decreased over time and he doesn't feel the urge to continue to this as he ages.