A pigeon is in a box pecking different coloured keys.When the red key lights up,food is delivered shortly after,but when the green key lights up,no food is delivered.After a while,the pigeon starts pecking the red key but not the green key.What is this experiment most likely examining?
A)stimulus discrimination.
B)stimulus generalization.
C)spontaneous recovery.
D)extinction.

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The experiment is examining whether the pigeon can discriminate between the red key (which leads to food delivery) and the green key (which does not lead to food delivery). The fact that the pigeon only pecks the red key suggests that it has learned to discriminate between the two stimuli.

A Pigeon Is in a Box Pecking Different Coloured Keys