Martha trains her cat Whiskers to salivate to the sound of a bell. She rings the bell every 15 minutes and doesn’t follow it with food for Whiskers. Whiskers salivates less and less and finally stops salivating at the sound of the ringing bell. A week later, she finds Whiskers salivating to the sound of a ringing bell. Which of the following terms explains this response?
a) stimulus discrimination
b) spontaneous recovery
c) instinctive drift
d) counterconditioning
Answer: B
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