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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Spontaneous recovery is the reappearance of a previously extinguished response after a delay. In this scenario, the animal's conditioned response to the metronome disappeared during extinction but reappeared after several days of being removed from the test situation, indicating spontaneous recovery. Higher-order conditioning refers to a situation where a neutral stimulus is paired with a conditioned stimulus to produce the same response. Extinction is the gradual reduction and eventual disappearance of a conditioned response. Stimulus generalization refers to the extension of a conditioned response to similar stimuli.

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