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
A)punishment
B)avoidance learning
C)stimulus generalization
D)negative reinforcement

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This is an example of stimulus generalization, where the fear response to one specific dog (the German Shepherd) has been generalized to all dogs. The child's initial fear response to the German Shepherd has been transferred to other similar stimuli (all dogs), leading to avoidance behavior.

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