Rosa becomes anxious when she enters the examination room at the clinic before a blood test.She also squirms when she views injections on television.This paragraph illustrates
A) non-associative learning.
B) stimulus generalization.
C) operant conditioning.
D) sensitization.

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Rosa's anxiety response to both the examination room and seeing injections on television indicates stimulus generalization, where a response to a specific stimulus is elicited by similar stimuli. This is a concept in classical conditioning where the conditioned response is triggered by stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus.

Rosa Becomes Anxious When She Enters the Examination Room at the Clinic