Five-year-old Sandrine jumps and cringes every time she hears thunder. Soon she cringes when she sees lightning because she knows that thunder will follow. One day when she is at her first fireworks show, she cringes when she sees the flash of light from the first fireworks in the sky. Sandrine is displaying ____.?
a. ?reconditioning
b. ?spontaneous recovery
c. ?stimulus generalization
d. ?stimulus discrimination
ANSWER:
c
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