Question

If a slamming door is a conditioned stimulus, then being able to distinguish between the sound of a slamming door and the sound of a heavy item being dropped would represent ________.A. stimulus generalization.B. conditioned response.C. stimulus discrimination.D. unconditioned response.

Answer 1

Answer:

C. stimulus discrimination

Explanation:

Stimulus discrimination: In psychology, the term stimulus discrimination refers to the process of responding to the original stimuli to which a person or an animal has been conditioned earlier and does not respond to any other stimuli that seem similar to the original stimuli.

Henceforth, stimulus discrimination leads to create discrimination between the original stimuli and the stimuli that seem like the original stimuli.

Because of stimulus discrimination, an individual or an animal responds differently to different stimuli.

In the question above, the given statement represents the stimulus discrimination process.