Your dog tends to salivate and get excited when you shake a box of dog biscuits. However, your dog does not drool when you shake a bag of cat food. This is an example of stimulus generalization.

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This is an example of stimulus discrimination because the dog is able to distinguish between the sound of the box of dog biscuits (leading to salivation) and the sound of a bag of cat food (not leading to salivation), showing a differentiated response to two different stimuli.

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