Question

Alicia, a 10-month-old infant, was bitten by her neighbor's dog. Now she is afraid of similar animals, including cats, squirrels, and her cousin's pet hamster. This is an example of ____________.A. spontaneous recoveryB. stimulus discriminationC. stimulus generalizationD. modeling

Answer 1

C. stimulus generalization

Step-by-step explanation:

Stimulus generalization: In psychology, the term stimulus generalization is a part of the classical conditioning theory which was introduced by one of the famous psychologist named Ivan Pavlov. It occurs in both i.e, the operant conditioning and the classical conditioning process.

Stimulus generalization is defined as the propensity of a conditioned stimulus or CS to trigger exact responses once the response was being conditioned. In other words, it occurs when a specific organism responds to a particular stimulus familiarly as it responds to the familiar stimulus.

In the question above, the given statement is an example of stimulus generalization.