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A rat had been reinforced for lever press behaviors. After one day of extinction training, the rat was demonstrating very low levels of responding. When the rat was returned to the test cage the next day, there was a small recovery in the rate of responding. This increase is called
a. spontaneous recovery.
b. dishabituation.
c. disinhibition.
d. the extinction burst.
Answer:
This increase is called a. spontaneous recovery.
Explanation:
In classical conditioning, spontaneous recovery is the reappearance of a response that had ceased or lessened in a previous time. In this case, the rat was demonstrating very low levels of responding. However, there was an increase in its response once it was returned to the test cage. This is an example of spontaneous recovery. NOTE: let's not mix up spontaneous recovery and dishabituation. Dishabituation is the recovery of a response after the introduction of a new stimulus. In this situation, the rat was not introduced to a new stimulus.