Practice question · True or false
Because extinction erases the original conditioned fear, a client who has lost a phobia in therapy is not expected to relapse.
Hints
- Does extinction remove the old learning or add new learning?
- Spontaneous recovery.
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False
Why
False. Extinction lays down new inhibitory learning on top of the original, which survives underneath, hence spontaneous recovery, renewal in a new context, and reinstatement after a stressor. This is precisely why exposure therapy is practised across multiple contexts rather than one.
Practise Classical Conditioning
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