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Anthony Classically Conditioned His Cat to Purr Whenever the Phone

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Anthony classically conditioned his cat to purr whenever the phone rang. One day, the phone rang for nearly two hours straight when Anthony wasn't home, and the cat's conditioned purring response underwent extinction. Today, the response has spontaneously recovered, but if the conditioned purring response were to undergo extinction again, Anthony should expect that it will


A) take less time to extinguish than it took for the original extinction.
B) take more time to extinguish than it took for the original extinction.
C) take the same amount of time to extinguish as it took for the original extinction.
D) be impossible to extinguish the response now that spontaneous recovery has occurred.

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