A researcher,several times a day,sounds a tone in a monkey's cage,then proceeds not to present a further stimulus.Later the researcher sounds a tone and drops nuts into the monkey's food dish.Despite the repetition of this tone-and-nuts presentation,the monkey has difficulty learning this association.This phenomenon is known as ____.

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The phenomenon is known as general learned irrelevance, which occurs when an organism learns that a stimulus is irrelevant because it has been presented without being paired with a significant event. In this case, the monkey learned the tone was irrelevant because it was initially presented several times without being followed by food, making it difficult to learn the new association when the tone was later paired with nuts.

A Researcher,several Times a Day,sounds a Tone in a Monkey's