Question

Although Henrietta extinguished her fear of spiders several months ago, she suddenly gasped in horror and felt her heart pounding when she saw an itsy-bitsy spider on her desk. This is an example of _____.

Answer 1

Spontaneous recovery

Spontaneous recovery is typically defined as the reemergence of conditioned responding to an extinguished conditioned stimulus (CS) with the passage of time since extinction.

What is Spontaneous Recovery ?

Spontaneous recovery occurs after the behavior starts to go away and can happen even without reinforcement.

• For spontaneous recovery to occur, the conditioning of the memory that is recalled later needs to be stored in long-term memory.

• It is a process where the semantics and associations of the certain memory are so ingrained that they can become habitual, or automatic to the person

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