Shannon is used to eating dinner every night about 7:00 pm, but now that she is away at college she eats earlier because the dinning hall is open from 4-6pm every night for dinner. Shannon eats dinner without feeling hungry for several weeks. Then one day while walking to the dinning hall, Shannon starts feeling very hungry. Those first several weeks of eating early are considered the _________________ phase of her conditioned response.
A. persistence
B. acquisition
C. salivating
D. extinction
B. acquisition
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