After researchers conditioned a dog to salivate to the sight of a triangle, they presented the triangle alone to the dog every three minutes. Over the course of several trials, the amount of saliva the dog secreted in response to the triangle decreased to zero. At that point, the researchers put the dog back in his cage for three hours. What happened the after the three hours the dog rested and went through the conditioning process again

Spontaneous recovery likely occurred, and the dog salivated in response to the triangle

Step-by-step explanation:

Spontaneous recovery is the reappearance of the conditioned response when a rest period has taken place or when there's a period of lessened response.

In this case, since the researchers put the dog back in his cage for three hours after which the dog went through the conditioning process again after the three hours, then there'll be a spontaneous recovery.