Accustomed to the sound of the old can opener, a cat still rushes to her food dish, even when she hears the slightly different sound of the new can opener for the first time. This demonstrates:

A) second-order conditioning.
B) discrimination.
C) generalization.
D) spontaneous recovery.


C) generalization.

Psychology

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