A child is bitten by a German Shepherd when he is young. When he grows up, the child develops a fear of not just German Shepherds, but of all dogs and he refuses to go near them. The fact that this person now avoids all dogs illustrates the process of:

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Stimulus generalization occurs when a response is elicited by stimuli that are similar to the original stimulus. In this case, the child's fear of all dogs, not just German Shepherds, is an example of stimulus generalization.

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