After feeding a dog with a red bowl but never giving any food with a green bowl, the dog now salivates only to the red bowl. This is an example of:
A) insight learning.
B) higher-order conditioning.
C) spontaneous recovery.
D) extinction.
E) stimulus discrimination.

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This is an example of stimulus discrimination because the dog has learned to differentiate between the red bowl (which signals food) and the green bowl (which does not signal food), responding only to the red bowl.

After Feeding a Dog with a Red Bowl but Never