Question

After little albert acquired a conditioned fear of rats, watson wanted to see how he would react to a white rabbit, cotton wool, and a santa claus mask. he was studying whether or not ________ had occurred. behavior modification stimulus discrimination extinction stimulus generalization

Answer 1

This is stimulus generalization. This concept shows that, when someone has been conditioned to respond in a certain way to a specific stimulus, it can be made more general to where the response occurs to anything that has a remote similarity to the conditioned stimulus.