Your cat,Tikki,always comes running when you shake the bag of cat food.One day,to try to find where he is hiding,you shake a bag of rice.Even though the rice makes the same sound as the cat food,Tikki stays in his hiding place.This is an example of ___.
A) stimulus discrimination
B) stimulus generalization
C) extinction
D) habituation

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This is an example of stimulus discrimination because the cat has learned to respond to the specific sound of the cat food bag, but not to the sound of the rice bag.

Your Cat,Tikki,always Comes Running When You Shake the Bag of Cat