If your professor ended certain class days by sounding a bullhorn and then offering sweet-smelling cookies to the class, you would start to salivate to the sound of the bullhorn. If on other days, your professor ended class by ringing a hand bell, and not offering cookies, you would not salivate to the sound of the hand bell. The aspect of classical conditioning responsible for that phenomenon is
A) discrimination
B) generalization
C) spontaneous recovery
D) renewal

Question

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Discrimination in classical conditioning refers to the ability to distinguish between different stimuli, responding only to the one that is consistently paired with the unconditioned stimulus (in this case, cookies) and not responding to similar stimuli that are not paired with the unconditioned stimulus (the hand bell).

If Your Professor Ended Certain Class Days by Sounding a Bullhorn