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Vance Neville
on Dec 27, 2024
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When Kristen asks her grandmother for a cookie, her grandmother usually gives her one. Last week at the park, Kristen's mother was embarrassed when Kristen walked up to five different elderly ladies and asked them for cookies. Kristen's behaviour illustrates the concept of
A) unconditioned reinforcement.
B) stimulus generalisation.
C) stimulus discrimination.
D) observational learning.
Stimulus Generalisation
The psychological phenomenon in which responses to a specific stimulus become triggered by stimuli that are similar in some way to the original stimulus.
- Differentiate among the notions of extinction, stimulus generalization, and stimulus discrimination in the context of operant conditioning.
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Learning Objectives
- Differentiate among the notions of extinction, stimulus generalization, and stimulus discrimination in the context of operant conditioning.