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Kaleb developed a fear of snow storms two winters ago when his car spun off the road and hit a tree during a blizzard. as the winter progressed, and he had no further accidents, kaleb thought his fear of snow storms has pretty well disappeared. to his surprise, this winter when the first heavy snow started to fall, he found his heart was pounding and he was trembling. this illustrates the classical conditioning process known as

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I believe the answer is: spontaneous recovery
spontaneous recovery refers to the re-appearance of a certain conditioned response after it lie dormant for a certain period of time.
The existence of spontaneous recovery indicates that Kaleb still hasn't fully resolved his psychological issue and it still resided in his sub-consciousness
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