When Kristen asks her grandmother for a cookie,her grandmother usually gives her one.Last week at the park,Kristen's mother was embarrassed when Kristen walked up to five different elderly ladies and asked them for cookies.Kristen's behavior illustrates the concept of
A) unconditioned reinforcement.
B) stimulus generalization.
C) stimulus discrimination.
D) observational learning.

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Kristen's behavior of asking multiple elderly ladies for cookies shows stimulus generalization, which means that the behavior is generalized to different stimuli that share similar characteristics with the original stimulus (her grandmother giving her a cookie).

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