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)counterconditioning.
B)instinctive drift.
C)spontaneous recovery.
D)stimulus discrimination.

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Spontaneous recovery is the reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response after a period of rest. In this scenario, the animal had undergone extinction and the conditioned response disappeared, but upon returning to the test situation, the conditioned response reappeared. This is an example of spontaneous recovery. Choices A, B, and D are not applicable in this scenario.

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