As a child, Blaine was attacked by a goose and subsequently developed a severe fear of waterfowl. As he got older, the fear gradually faded until it was all but forgotten
Blaine is now in his early-twenties and recently went strolling through a park by the river where he came across a flock of geese. The geese gave him a stare and he felt slightly fearful, though not as afraid as he had been as a child. Blaine's fear response is an example of __________
a) stimulus discrimination.
b) stimulus generalization.
c) higher-order conditioning.
d) spontaneous recovery.
d
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