You train your dog Milo to salivate to the sound of a bell.Then you ring the bell every five minutes and don't follow the ringing with food for Milo.He salivates less and less and finally stops salivating at all when the bell rings.But the next morning,when you ring the bell,Milo salivates! What term is used to explain the reappearance of this response?
A)Counterconditioning
B)Instinctive drift
C)Spontaneous recovery
D)Stimulus discrimination

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Spontaneous recovery refers to the reappearance of a previously extinguished response after a period of time with no exposure to the conditioned stimulus. In this scenario, Milo had stopped salivating when the bell rang due to extinction training, but his response reappeared the next morning during testing, demonstrating spontaneous recovery.

You Train Your Dog Milo to Salivate to the Sound