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This is known as spontaneous recovery.
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So, this all seems a very technical phenomena
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related to animals and the like
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but it's easy to see how it generalizes
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and how it extends.
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One interesting notion is that of stimulus generalization.
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And stimulus generalization is the topic
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of one of your articles in The Norton Reader,
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the one by Watson, John Watson, the famous behaviorist,
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who reported a bizarre experiment
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with a baby known as Little Albert.
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And here's the idea.