Question

As a result of John Watson’s conditioning techniques, Little Albert was frightened not only of a white rat, but also of rabbits, fur coats, and Santa Claus’s beard. These fears illustrate ____

(A) shaping.
(B) spontaneous recovery.
(C) stimulus generalization.
(D) stimulus discrimination.

Answer 1

C

Explanation:

Stimulus Generalization:

In a conditioning process, stimulus generalization is the procedure for the conditioned stimulus to produce a similar response after the response has been conditioned, which needs to understand stimulus generalization can influence response to the conditioned stimulus. When a pet or a human being trained to respond to a stimulus, another same stimulus may produce the same stimuli as well. Some times this can be problematic, particularly in cases where individuals needed to be able to distinguish between stimuli and respond only to a very specific stimulus.