A small boy has just recently delighted his parents because he learned to call his father "daddy." However,it has now become an embarrassment to his mother when she takes him out with her because he keeps calling other men "daddy." This is an example of:
A)associative linkage.
B)generalization.
C)higher-order conditioning.
D)spontaneous recovery.

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The small boy has generalized the term "daddy" to other men, which is an example of a generalization in operant conditioning. The learned behavior (calling his father "daddy") has generalized to similar stimuli (other men) in the environment.

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