Jonah is playing on his tablet one evening, when his father asks him to finish up and get ready to take a bath. Jonah nods but c
ompletely ignores the request. After a few minutes his father repeats the request with a slightly sterner voice. Jonah says, "Okay, let me just finish this game." Ten minutes later, when Jonah has clearly played several more games, his father repeats the request but with a firm voice. Jonah, knowing that his father is getting angry, puts down the tablet, and goes to take a bath. Jonah’s different responding to different "voices" from his father illustrates:
Discrimination: In psychology, the term discrimination is one of the concept in the conditioning theory, and is described as an organism's including human beings and animals tendency or capability to respond differently towards different stimuli. Discrimination is considered as more advance than generalization as a form of learning.
In the question above, Jonah’s different responding to different "voices" from his father illustrates discrimination.
