Your friend has enrolled in a course in music training.The first part of the course involves learning to recognize different tones.Every time the students hear a middle C, they are to raise their right hands.Early in training you expect the stimulus generalization gradient to
A)be flat.
B)rise steeply just before the middle C mark, then drop immediately after.
C)rise to a high at middle C and remain there.
D)gradually rise and fall, with a peak at middle C.

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Stimulus generalization is the tendency for stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit the conditioned response. In this case, the students are trained to raise their right hands every time they hear a middle C. As they continue to hear different notes that are close in pitch to middle C, their response may gradually increase and then decrease again as the notes become more dissimilar to middle C. This would result in a stimulus generalization gradient that gradually rises and falls, with a peak at middle C. Therefore, the best choice is D.

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