In reference to Classical conditioning, extinction can be thought of as a paradoxical process because even though extinction leads to less of a response in an organism, it can still be explained as...

Extracted text: In reference to Classical conditioning, extinction can be thought of as a paradoxical process because even though extinction leads to less of a response in an organism, it can still be explained as the organism learning that the CS no longer predicts the occurrence of US. the decrease of the response observed in extinction often leads to the emergence of a different conditioned response. extinction erases the memory trace of the CS-US association. extinction leads to the organism forgetting the CS-US association after the CS is no longer presented with the US.