Your Dog Tends to Salivate and Get Excited When You

question 441

Multiple Choice

Your dog tends to salivate and get excited when you shake a box of dog biscuits. However, your dog does not drool when you shake a bag of cat food. This is an example of:

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

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