A child observed an attack of someone on the street by a man in a yellow jacket. Now he is afraid of any man in a yellow jacket he encounters. What is this phenomenon known as?

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This is known as second-order conditioning. When a conditioned stimulus acts like or presents similarly to an unconditioned stimulus, the elicited response to the non-threatening conditioned stimulus is the same as to the threatening unconditioned stimulus.

A Child Observed an Attack of Someone on the Street