An Animal Is Conditioned to Salivate to a Metronome Using

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Multiple Choice

An animal is conditioned to salivate to a metronome 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) spontaneous recovery
• B) higher-order conditioning
• C) extinction
• D) stimulus generalization

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