Question

Shahid was in a serious automobile accident on a snowy evening last winter that caused him to feel anxious every time it snowed and he had to get behind the wheel. after a few months, shahid s fear of driving in the snow disappeared. to shahid s surprise, the first snowfall of the next year once again brought back his fear of driving in the snow. the return of shahid s fear can best be described by the behavioral concept of _

Answer 1

The correct answer is spontaneous recovery

Spontaneous recovery (SR) refers to a concept from Pavlov's theory of classical conditioning. SR is defined as a phenomenon in which a previously extinguished learned or conditioned response reemerges after a delay. In this instance, Shahid's conditioned fear response when he was driving in the snow was extinguished, but then reemerged a year later through the process of spontaneous recovery.