Don is delighted when he successfully conditions his roommate,Lloyd,to cringe at the sound of the squeaky drawer by pairing the squeak with a ping-pong ball to his roommate's head.He decides to continue his classical conditioning experiment and creates another squeaky noise by dragging his chair legs across the floor.At first,Lloyd cringes at the new squeak,illustrating ____.

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Lloyd's initial response to the new squeaky noise indicates generalization, which is when a conditioned response is elicited by a similar but not identical stimulus. Habituation is the decrease in response to a repeated stimulus over time, and dishabituation is the recovery of a response to a habituated stimulus when a novel stimulus is presented. Discrimination is the ability to distinguish between two similar but distinct stimuli and respond differently to each.

Don Is Delighted When He Successfully Conditions His Roommate,Lloyd,to Cringe