An animal is conditioned to salivate to a bell using Pavlovian procedures.After the conditioning is established,the animal is then put through an extinction procedure and the conditioned salivation disappears.Then the animal is removed from the test situation for several days.When returned to the test situation,the conditioned response is seen again.The effect is known as:
A)spontaneous recovery.
B)higher-order conditioning.
C)CR resurrection.
D)response generalization.

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Spontaneous recovery is the reappearance of a conditioned response after extinction and a rest period. This phenomenon suggests that extinction does not erase the original learning, but rather suppresses it temporarily.

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