A dog, taught to salivate to the sound of a buzzer, learned that the buzzer was no longer followed by food and stopped salivating to the buzzer. If the buzzer was again sounded after a few weeks, and the dog was in the same environment, the dog would probably ________.
A) not salivate
B) salivate
C) require many trial pairings of the buzzer and the food to reestablish the association and begin salivating to the buzzer again
D) salivate only if the buzzer was dissimilar to the one on which it was conditioned

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The dog would likely salivate again to the sound of the buzzer, as it had previously learned to associate it with food. This is known as spontaneous recovery, where an extinguished response reappears after a period of rest.

A Dog, Taught to Salivate to the Sound of a Buzzer