Pederson's teacher blows a whistle when it is time for his class to come in from recess. Pederson is afraid of being left on the playground alone,so he starts to go inside any time he
Hears a sound like the teacher's whistle,such as the school bell ringing.Pederson's behavior
Is an example of
A) second-order conditioning.
B) stimulus discrimination.
C) spontaneous recovery.
D) stimulus generalization.

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Pederson's behavior is an example of stimulus generalization because he is responding to sounds that are similar to the teacher's whistle, not just the whistle itself. This means he has generalized the stimulus (the sound of the whistle) to include other similar sounds.

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