What does the occurrence of spontaneous recovery tell you about the functional properties of extinction?
A) Extinction is a new form of learning, but it only inhibits rather than deletes the learned association between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus.
B) Extinction is an adaptive response to delete spurious information from memory associations.
C) Extinction is a useful tendency to try to readapt old learning strategies to novel problems.
D) Extinction is the basis of cognitive learning, when applied to reappraisal strategies.

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Spontaneous recovery occurs when an extinguished response suddenly reappears after a period of time without reinforcement. This suggests that extinction does not completely erase the association between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus, but rather inhibits it. Therefore, option A is the correct choice.

What Does the Occurrence of Spontaneous Recovery Tell You About