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

question 14

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 stared at him and he felt slightly fearful,though not as afraid as he had been as a child.Blaine's fear response to the geese in the park is an example of

• A)stimulus discrimination.
• B)stimulus generalization.
• C)extinction.
• D)spontaneous recovery.

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