As a result of being paired with a loud noise, a flashing light has come to elicit a startle reflex. When the flashing light is repeatedly presented without the loud noise, the startle reflex eventually stops occurring. This process in which a conditioned stimulus is no longer able to elicit a conditioned response is referred to as:
respondent extinction

respondent extinction  

Explanation:

Respondent extinction: In psychology, the term "respondent extinction" is also written as simply extinction, and is described as a process in which a specific behavior is being terminated that has been conditioned earlier in an organism including animal and human beings via "behavioral conditioning processes". Extinction occurs when reinforcement to a specific behavior is being discontinued.

In the question above, the given statement signifies the "respondent behavior".

for many centuries there were important factors which the economies of the muslim empires developed increasingly. they applied economic procedures in production, investment, finance, taxation and property. they used to tax certain goods (for example: harvest), they charged interest on money lent, they signed contracts with merchants; they relied on a common currency, and they used checks as well as promissory notes. with the money collected by means of taxation, the government provided the needy with an income. in addition, trading networks covered huge distances, so far regions started to have contact and exchange goods. this trade network covered areas of asia, africa and europe.