Dee Dee taught his dog Bosco to roll over whenever he heard the command "Spin!" After a while Dee Dee got bored with the trick, and allowed Bosco's behavior to extinguish
However, while watching Jeopardy! several months later, Dee Dee got excited by the answer "Clothes in a dryer" and shouted out "What is ‘spin?!'" at which point Bosco flipped around like a circus performer. Which principle of classical conditioning does this example illustrate?
a) spontaneous recovery
b) higher-order conditioning
c) extinction
d) stimulus generalization
ANS: A, When a conditioned response briefly reappears after it has been extinguished, this is called spontaneous recovery.
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