Your dog,Zeus,learns to roll over every time you blow a whistle.One day,you take Zeus to a soccer match and he rolls over every time the referee blows the whistle.This illustrates the concept of
A)spontaneous recovery.
B)discrimination.
C)generalization.
D)desensitization.

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Generalization is the tendency for a learned behavior to occur in response to a similar stimulus as the original learned stimulus. In this scenario, Zeus learned to roll over in response to a whistle and is now rolling over in response to a similar stimulus (the referee's whistle) at the soccer match. This demonstrates generalization.

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