Janine completed several tours of duty in Afghanistan. She suffers from PTSD. Now, back home in Texas, she is frightened by firecrackers and cars backfiring. The fact that these sounds scare her reflects a process of stimulus _________.

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The correct answer is stimulus generalization, which occurs when a response to a specific stimulus becomes associated with similar stimuli, causing the same reaction. In Janine's case, the sounds of firecrackers and cars backfiring, which are similar to gunfire, trigger her PTSD response due to their similarity to the traumatic sounds she experienced in Afghanistan.

Janine Completed Several Tours of Duty in Afghanistan