What Does the Occurrence of Spontaneous Recovery Tell You About

question 57

Multiple Choice

What does the occurrence of spontaneous recovery tell you about the functional properties of extinction?

• A) Extinction is a new form of learning, but it only inhibits rather than deletes the learned association between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus.
• B) Extinction is an adaptive response to delete spurious information from memory associations.
• C) Extinction is a useful tendency to try to readapt old learning strategies to novel problems.
• D) Extinction is the basis of cognitive learning, when applied to reappraisal strategies.

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