Larry Is Visiting His Grandmother and Cooking Dinner for Her

question 43

Multiple Choice

Larry is visiting his grandmother and cooking dinner for her. Since his grandmother has a different model of microwave oven than his, he has learned that he needs to push a different sequence of buttons on his grandmother's microwave oven when he wants to use it for cooking. This is an example of:

• A) generalization.
• B) discrimination.
• C) sensory preconditioning.
• D) negative patterning.

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