Usually means: Reappearance of extinguished conditioned response.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Spontaneous recovery)

noun:  a phenomenon of learning and memory that was first named and described by Ivan Pavlov in his studies of classical (Pavlovian) conditioning.


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