At the end of your first two months in your new apartment, you rearrange the bathroom and move the clothes hamper from one corner to the other. For the next two weeks, you accidentally throw your clothes in the wrong corner, but by the end of the third week you are tossing the clothes in the correct location. After spending Thanksgiving break at home with your parents, you again find yourself pitching your dirty clothes in the corner where the hamper used to be, and you think, "Wow, _______ really does occur."
A) sign tracking
B) generalization
C) extinction
D) spontaneous recovery

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

This scenario describes spontaneous recovery, where a previously extinguished response reappears after a period of no exposure to the conditioned stimulus.

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