A monkey flips a switch for food in one room.The monkey is then placed in a new but similar room.In the new room,the monkey also flips the switch.What accounts for this behavior?
A) stimulus discrimination
B) external disinhibition
C) spontaneous recovery
D) stimulus generalization

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The monkey's behavior of flipping the switch in the new but similar room suggests that it is displaying stimulus generalization. This means that the monkey is responding to a broad range of stimuli that are similar to the original stimulus (i.e. the switch for food) rather than discriminating between the original and new stimuli.

A Monkey Flips a Switch for Food in One Room