Pavlov conditioned a dog to salivate to the sound of a tone.He then paired a light with the tone until the dog salivated to the light alone.This is an example of
A) stimulus generalization.
B) stimulus discrimination.
C) spontaneous recovery.
D) higher-order conditioning.

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This is an example of higher-order conditioning because the light stimulus was paired with the conditioned stimulus (tone) to elicit a conditioned response (salivating), without the need for an unconditioned stimulus (food) present.

Pavlov Conditioned a Dog to Salivate to the Sound of a Tone.He