Your child fears going to the doctor because on her last visit she received a painful treatment. Now every time your child visits the doctor the nurse is with him. You notice the child seems afraid of the nurse even though she has never administered a painful treatment. What is this probably due to?
A)higher-order conditioning
B)stimulus overload
C)stimulus discrimination
D)response generalization

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This is probably due to higher-order conditioning, where the child has associated the presence of the nurse with the painful treatment received during the previous visit, even though the nurse was not the one who administered it. The child's fear response has generalized to the nurse as a result.

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