When a young child sees a cow and calls it "doggie," this is an example of

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This is an example of stimulus generalization, where the child generalizes their previous association with "doggie" to a new stimulus, the cow, that shares some similarities (i.e. four legs, furry coat). Stimulus discrimination (A) would be the opposite, where the child is able to distinguish between two similar stimuli and respond differently to them. Higher-order conditioning (C) involves pairing a neutral stimulus with a conditioned stimulus to create a new conditioned stimulus, and response discrimination (D) involves an organism learning to respond differently to similar but distinct stimuli.

When a Young Child Sees a Cow and Calls It