As a Child, Blaine Was Attacked by a Goose and Subsequently

question 159

Multiple Choice

As a child, Blaine was attacked by a goose and subsequently developed a severe fear of waterfowl. As he got older, the fear gradually faded until it was all but forgotten. Blaine is now in his early-twenties and recently went strolling through a park by the river where he came across a flock of geese. The geese gave him a stare and he felt slightly fearful, though not as afraid as he had been as a child. Blaine's fear response is an example of __________

• A) stimulus discrimination.
• B) stimulus generalization.
• C) higher-order conditioning.
• D) spontaneous recovery.

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