If a classically conditioned dog salivates not just to the original tone, but also to a higher pitched and a lower pitched tone, the process of stimulus discrimination has occurred.

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If the dog has not learned to differentiate between the original tone and other tones, then stimulus discrimination has not occurred. In this scenario, the dog is showing stimulus generalization rather than stimulus discrimination.

If a Classically Conditioned Dog Salivates Not Just to the Original