Little Albert learns to fear white rats,but he does not fear white rabbits.This behaviour illustrates
A)spontaneous recovery.
B)stimulus discrimination.
C)acquisition.
D)stimulus generalization.

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Little Albert's fear of white rats but not white rabbits suggests that he has learned to discriminate between the two stimuli (rats and rabbits) and only formed an association between fear and one of them. This is an example of stimulus discrimination, which is the ability to differentiate between similar stimuli and respond differently to them based on their unique characteristics.

Little Albert Learns to Fear White Rats,but He Does Not