Thadius' cat is smart.His cat has learned that the sound of the can opener means his favourite food is coming and he begins rubbing all over Thadius' legs and meowing.Within a short while,his cat realizes that before the can opener sound is the sound of the drawer opening,and now he gets very excited every time Thadius opens the drawer.This is an example of what type of learning?
A) higher-order conditioning
B) extinction
C) stimulus discrimination
D) spontaneous recovery

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This is an example of higher-order conditioning, where a stimulus that was previously neutral (the sound of the drawer opening) becomes a conditioned stimulus through its association with another conditioned stimulus (the sound of the can opener), which was initially associated with an unconditioned stimulus (the cat's favorite food).

Thadius' Cat Is Smart