Question

Bart developed a severe fear of flying when he was piloting a small plane through some severe turbulence. He has been seeing a therapist, and it appears that his fear response has been successfully extinguished. The therapist used a flight simulator to help Bart practice his piloting skills in a safe setting. However, the first time Bart stepped back into a real plane, his fear returned. This example illustrates the phenomenon known as

a.second-order conditioning.
b.the renewal effect.
c.unblocking.
d.stimulus generalization.

Answer 1

The renewal effect

Step-by-step explanation:

The renewal effect is the effect that the CR behavior gets returned when the same environment or context occurs after the extinction of the behavior. When the conditioned response gets extinguished the objects do not emit the same behavior for a long time.

But when the environment becomes to change the extinguished behavior renewed. Here the context is the stimuli that are presented by the organism in the environment. This effect gets stronger when the organism return to its original state.

Thus here Bart developed severe fear because of the phenomena called the renewal effect.