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Spontaneous Recovery in Everyday Pet Behavior
Spontaneous recovery can occur in everyday situations, such as with a pet's conditioned response to an appliance. If a cat's electric can opener breaks and is unused for several months, the cat's learned response may lie dormant. Once the can opener is fixed and used again, the cat will likely remember the association, get excited, and run to the kitchen, demonstrating the return of the previously extinguished conditioned response.
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