What Does the Occurrence of Spontaneous Recovery Tell You About

Multiple Choice

What does the occurrence of spontaneous recovery tell you about the functional properties of extinction?

A) Extinction is a form of new learning, but it only inhibits rather than deletes the learned association between the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus.
B) Extinction is an adaptive response to delete spurious information from memory.
C) Extinction is a useful tendency to try to readapt old learning strategies to novel problems.
D) Extinction is the basis of cognitive learning when applied to new contexts.