Jack uses classical conditioning to teach his dog Luna to sit whenever Jack says "Sit." But now,anything that Jack says that is similar to "Sit" causes Luna to show the conditioned response of sitting.This is most likely the result of
A) stimulus generalization.
B) stimulus discrimination.
C) extinction.
D) second-order conditioning.

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Stimulus generalization occurs when a response is elicited by stimuli that are similar but not identical to the original conditioned stimulus. In this case, Luna is responding to words similar to "Sit" because she has generalized the conditioned response to similar stimuli.

Jack Uses Classical Conditioning to Teach His Dog Luna to Sit