When Antonio Was Sick as a Child, His Mother Would

question 220

Multiple Choice

When Antonio was sick as a child, his mother would always make him vanilla pudding; to Antonio it seemed like the vanilla pudding made him feel better. Even now, he still gets a good feeling when he starts to prepare some vanilla pudding, but not when he starts to make any other type of pudding. This example illustrates the classical conditioning process of

• A) stimulus generalization.
• B) preparedness.
• C) stimulus discrimination.
• D) negative avoidance.

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