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:
A)stimulus generalization.
B)spontaneous recovery.
C)stimulus discrimination.
D)higher order conditioning.

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Stimulus discrimination is the ability to tell the difference between stimuli that are similar but not the same. In this case, the dog can discriminate between the sound of a box of biscuits and a bag of cat food, and only salivates for the former, suggesting it can differentiate between the two stimuli.

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