Don is delighted when he successfully conditions his roommate, Lloyd, to cringe at the sound of the squeaky drawer by pairing the squeak with a table tennis ball to his roommate's head. He decides to continue his experiment with classical conditioning and creates another squeaky noise by dragging his chair across the floor. At first Lloyd cringes at the new squeak, but with continued "trials" in which the drawer squeak is paired with a table tennis ball to the head but the chair squeak is not, Lloyd stops cringing to the chair squeak, illustrating ____.
A) habituation
B) dishabituation
C) discrimination
D) generalization

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Lloyd's ability to distinguish between the two different squeaky noises and respond differently to them shows discrimination, which is the ability to differentiate between two stimuli and respond differently to each one.

Don Is Delighted When He Successfully Conditions His Roommate, Lloyd