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A patient is concerned that while studying for an examination he began to notice a severe headache in the left front and side of his head that was throbbing and was relieved when he lay down.He tells the nurse that his mother also had these headaches.The nurse suspects that he may be suffering from:
Stimulus Generalization
The process in which a response that is originally elicited by a specific stimulus also becomes elicited by other, similar stimuli.
Conditioned Response
A learned reaction to a stimulus which occurs because of previous conditioning.
Operant Conditioning
A method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior, leading to the increase or decrease of certain behaviors over time.
Extinction
In psychology, extinction refers to the gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a learned response, often due to the absence of reinforcement that initially established the response.
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