When Antonio was sick as a child, his mother would always make him vanilla pudding; to Antonio it seemed like the vanilla pudding made him feel better. Even now, he still gets a good feeling when he starts to prepare some vanilla pudding, but not when he starts to make any other type of pudding. This example illustrates the classical conditioning process of
A) stimulus generalization.
B) preparedness.
C) stimulus discrimination.
D) negative avoidance.

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This example illustrates stimulus discrimination because Antonio has learned to respond to a specific stimulus (vanilla pudding) but not to other similar stimuli (other types of pudding). He only associates the good feeling with vanilla pudding and not with any other type of pudding.

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