If you own a dog that tends to salivate and get excited when you shake a box of dog biscuits, you may have noticed that your dog also drools when you shake a bag of cat food. If so, this would be an example of:
A)stimulus generalization.
B)spontaneous recovery.
C)stimulus discrimination.
D)higher order conditioning.

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This is an example of stimulus generalization because the dog is responding to a similar stimulus (the sound of shaking) even though it is a different type of food (dog biscuits vs. cat food).

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