A Dog Salivates in the Presence of a 3000-Hz Tone

question 117

Multiple Choice

A dog salivates in the presence of a 3000-Hz tone but not in the presence of a 2800-Hz tone. This is most likely an example of _____.

• A) stimulus discrimination
• B) semantic generalization
• C) verbal discrimination
• D) visual generalization

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