Question

Describe how you would use stimuli discrimination training to make generalization more likely or less likely to occur.

Answer 1

Stimulus discrimination training involves reinforcing an organism to respond to a specific stimulus and not to similar ones, while stimulus generalization involves rewarding responses to a range of similar stimuli.

Step-by-step explanation:

To use stimulus discrimination training to influence generalization, you need to train an organism to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to similar stimuli. This training involves reinforcing the organism for responding to the conditioned stimulus, while not reinforcing responses to stimuli that are similar, but not identical. For example, if you wanted to train a dog to respond only to your whistle (and not others), you would only provide a reward (like food or affection) when the dog responds to your specific whistle sound. Over time, the dog learns to discriminate between the different whistles and responds solely to the conditioned one. If you wanted generalization to occur, you would reward responses to varying whistles that are similar in pitch or tone to yours, encouraging the dog to respond to a broader range of stimuli.