Little Karen was bitten by a tan pony she was riding at a carnival. It hurt and frightened her. The next month she was visiting
her uncle, who had a tan Great Dane (dog). It frightened her even though she had never had a bad experience with a dog. Fear of this dog is an example of:_________. A) response discrimination. B) modeling. C) stimulus generalization. D) vicarious reinforcement.
Stimuli generalization in the conditioning process refers to the tendency for the conditioned stimuli to elicit similar responses once the response has been conditioned. In other words, it is the tendency of a similar stimuli to the original stimulus in the process of learning to produce an estimated response learned under the original condition. It occurs when similar behavior is evoked by an analogous but not identical experience.
