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Officer Castro notices a car in front of him driving at a slow speed.  The driver seems to be driving erratically. Officer Castro activates his blue lights and attempts to pull the car over.  The driver continues to drive for approximately two additional miles before pulling over.  When Officer Castro slowly approaches the car, he smells what seems to be a heavy odor of marijuana.  The driver has dilated eyes and slurred speech.  There are four individuals in the car.
Officer Castro intended for this traffic stop to be a brief seizure, which would be considered a(n)


Definitions:

CR

A term that stands for conditioned response, which is an automatic response established by training to an ordinarily neutral stimulus.

CS

Often used as an abbreviation for Computer Science, a field of study that encompasses the theory, experimentation, and engineering that form the basis for the design and use of computers.

Spontaneous Recovery

After a pause in exposure to the stimulus that originally elicited it, a previously vanished conditioned response once again manifests.

Extinction

Within psychology, it's the progressive decline and ultimate vanishing of a conditioned reaction because the conditioned stimulus is no longer associated with the unconditioned stimulus.

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