The proverb "He who hath been bitten by a snake fears a rope" illustrates ______________
A) stimulus discrimination
B) extinction
C) spontaneous recovery
D) stimulus generalization.
Answer: D
Rationale: Generalization is a process in which a response that originally occurs to a specific stimulus also occurs to different, though similar stimuli. The proverb in this example means that someone who has been bitten by a snake will also fear ropes, in other words, people bitten by snakes generalize their fear to stimuli that are similar to snakes.
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