In classical conditioning,a subject can learn to respond to one conditioned stimulus but not to another similar stimulus.What is this phenomenon called

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This phenomenon is called stimulus discrimination, which means that the subject can discriminate between the conditioned stimulus and a similar, but not the same, stimulus. This is important because it demonstrates that learning has occurred and the subject can differentiate between stimuli that have different associations with a behavioral response. Stimulus generalization refers to the tendency of a response learned to one stimulus to occur in response to a similar, but not identical, stimulus. Conditioned forgetting and extinction refer to different processes of unlearning a previously learned association.

In Classical Conditioning,a Subject Can Learn to Respond to One