Ken's mouth waters every time he hears the ice-cream truck's familiar song in the distance. One day, a slightly different song is heard in the distance and Ken's mouth waters. Ken's behaviour illustrates

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Ken's behaviour of having his mouth water to a slightly different song indicates stimulus generalisation, which occurs when an organism responds similarly to different stimuli that are similar but not identical. In this case, Ken had formed an association between the ice-cream truck's song and the arrival of ice-cream, and that association generalized to a similar but different song.

Ken's Mouth Waters Every Time He Hears the Ice-Cream Truck's