Question

spontaneous recovery is an important concept in conditioning. spontaneous recovery is

Answer 1

Spontaneous recovery is basically a response. These responses are basically the results of classical conditioning. Responses of operant conditioning are also involved in Spontaneous recovery. Spontaneous conditioning are basically the re-appearances of conditioned responses.

These responses are generated after a break or after a period in which no such responses have taken place. It can be taken as the renewal effect of conditioned responses. The returned responses may not be of same intensity like original responses.

Spontaneous recovery can be understood through an example. Suppose there is bird. We have trained this bird to start singing/making noise after hearing a bell sound. After some time we we train the same bird to make noise/sing after observing flash of green light.

We can expect that bird will now sing/make noise only after observing green light. After some days if we observe that bird starts singing/make noise even after hearing a bell sound while there was no green light in surrounding then we will say that spontaneous recovery of conditioned responses has taken place.