You classically condition your dog Milo to salivate when middle C is played on the piano,but you find that he also salivates when middle C is played on the guitar.You make a point of playing C on the guitar and not giving Milo any food afterward,whereas you do sometimes give him food after you play C on the piano.After a few days,Milo stops salivating when C is played on the guitar but continues to salivate when it is played on the piano.This phenomenon is known as:
A)extinction.
B)stimulus discrimination.
C)higher-order conditioning.
D)instinctive drift.

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Stimulus discrimination occurs when an organism responds differently to two or more similar stimuli. In this case, Milo learned to associate the sound of middle C with food when it was played on the piano, but he did not associate it with food when it was played on the guitar. Once he learned this discrimination, he stopped salivating when he heard middle C on the guitar.

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