Question

An ice cream truck plays “Old MacDonald Had a Farm.” Children run outside when they hear it playing. Then the ice cream truck changes the song it plays to “B-I-N-G-O.” Even though the song is different, the neighborhood children react the same way. What would a psychologist call this behavior?

(1 point)
Responses

flooding

flooding

extinction

extinction

generalization

generalization

discrimination

Answer 1

Generalization.

Explanation: The children respond to a different but similar stimulus (another song) in the same way — a classic example of stimulus generalization in classical conditioning.