John's heart has been conditioned to beat rapidly whenever he smells Windsong perfume on a woman.However,John's heart also races when he smells Chanel #5 and other perfumes.This illustrates:
A)stimulus generalization.
B)discrimination.
C)extinction.
D)spontaneous recovery.

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This scenario demonstrates stimulus generalization, as John's response of a rapid heartbeat has generalized to other perfumes besides Windsong when smelling them on a woman. Discrimination would refer to John being able to differentiate between Windsong and other perfumes and having different responses to each. Extinction would be the gradual disappearance of the conditioned response over time without reinforcement, and spontaneous recovery would be the reappearance of the previously extinct conditioned response after a period of time.

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