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Spontaneous Recovery in Pavlov's Dogs
In Pavlov's classic experiments, spontaneous recovery was demonstrated after dogs underwent extinction training, where a bell (conditioned stimulus) was presented repeatedly without meat powder (unconditioned stimulus) until the dogs stopped salivating. Following a rest period of a couple of hours, ringing the bell caused the dogs to begin salivating again, illustrating the return of the extinguished conditioned response.
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