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 continue his experiment with classical conditioning and creates another squeaky noise by dragging his chair legs across the floor.At first Lloyd cringes at the new squeak,but with continued "trials" in which the drawer squeak is paired with a ping-pong ball to the head but the chair leg squeak is not,Lloyd stops cringing to the chair leg squeak,illustrating ____.

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Discrimination occurs when an individual learns to differentiate between two similar stimuli and responds differently to each one. In this case, Lloyd learns to discriminate between the two squeaky noises and only responds with fear to the specific sound that is followed by the ping-pong ball, indicating that he has learned an association between the two. Therefore, choice C) discrimination is the best answer. Habituation refers to a decrease in response to a stimulus after repeated exposure, dishabituation refers to the recovery of a response after habituation has occurred, and generalization refers to responding similarly to stimuli that are similar but not identical to the original conditioned stimulus.

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