Three-year-old Johnny was classically conditioned to salivate to a bell that was paired with lemon juice
After this conditioned response was extinguished, the experimenter presented the bell the following day, and Johnny responded by salivating again to the bell, at least at first. Johnny's return to the learned response is known as
a. latent learning.
b. response chaining.
c. spontaneous recovery.
d. stimulus control.
ANSWER: c
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