Consider a child who is burned by touching a hot stove. The sight of the stove may evoke fear, and because hearing the word stove may evoke a mental image of the stove, just hearing the word may evoke fear. The child shows discrimination towards the hot stove.

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The child is actually showing generalization, not discrimination, because the fear response has been generalized from the specific stimulus of the hot stove to the word "stove" or the sight of it, rather than discriminating and only showing fear to the specific hot stove that caused the burn.

Consider a Child Who Is Burned by Touching a Hot