If you praise a child for learning that the plural of sheep is sheep and the plural of deer is deer and the child cries excitedly, "Look at all the goat!" on seeing a herd of goats, this illustrates the learning theory principle of

a. extinction.
b. discrimination.
c. reinforcement.
d. generalization.


d

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