After the successful extinction of your son's whining for a toy

while you are shopping, you go shopping several weeks later and he begins to whine for a toy as if he is "just checking to see if the rules have changed back." This situation illustrates
a. shaping.
b. spontaneous recovery.
c. stimulus generalization.
d. stimulus discrimination.


ANSWER: b

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