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#1. For six months, you consistently used a specific vending machine on your college campus. One day, the machine broke and was never repaired, leading to the discontinuation of your vending machine use behavior, as you no longer received reinforcement. Several weeks or months after the behavior of attempting to use the machine had effectively stopped, you occasionally find yourself walking by the vending machine and attempting to insert money, ‘just to see if it works.’ This temporary, unreinforced reappearance of the previously extinguished behavior is best identified as which behavioral phenomenon?

Extinction burst

Spontaneous recovery

Resistance to punishment

Extinction

Spontaneous recovery refers to the temporary reappearance of an extinguished behavior after a period in which the behavior had ceased The key here is that the behavior had already been extinguished and then reappears even without further reinforcement An extinction burst in contrast is a temporary increase in the frequency intensity or variability of a behavior at the very beginning of an extinction procedure often accompanied by novel behaviors or emotional responses Extinction itself is the procedure of discontinuing reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior leading to a decrease in its future frequency Resistance to punishment refers to the continued occurrence of a behavior despite the implementation of a punishment procedure which is not applicable here as punishment was not involved

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