Your dog has learned that whenever her food bowl is on the floor in your house,if she walks over and looks in it there will be food in it.While visiting some friends,your dog notices a similar looking bowl on the floor,so she runs over to it expecting to find some food in it.This example is most relevant to which of the following concepts?

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This scenario involves operant generalization, which refers to a behavior being carried over across similar situations. The dog's behavior of looking in the food bowl was reinforced in one context (at home), and now it is being generalized to a similar context (at a friend's house) in the expectation of finding food.

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