Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. When individuals respond in different ways to different stimuli, the process of responding to some stimuli, but not others is called discrimination learning.
2. Racial, ethnic, and religious prejudices are examples of discrimination learning.
3. A steep generalization gradient indicates that people respond greatly to stimuli not very similar to the training stimulus.
4. As is true of excitatory generalization, inhibition generalizes to stimuli quite dissimilar to the training stimulus.
5. Lashley and Wade contend an inability to discriminate between the training and test stimuli is responsible for stimulus discrimination.
1. True
2. False
3. False
4. True
5. False
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