The chapter-opening story describes how Dr.Pierce taught rats to associate sweet-tasting foods with no calories.He then exposed these rats to a sweet-tasting,calorie-rich pre-meal and found that over the next three hours these rats ate significantly more than control rats.Which of the following explains these results best?
A)extinction
B)spontaneous recovery
C)stimulus discrimination
D)stimulus generalization

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The rats in the experiment had learned to associate the taste of sweetness with no calories, but when presented with a sweet-tasting, calorie-rich pre-meal, they exhibited stimulus generalization by eating significantly more over the next three hours compared to control rats.

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