Which of the following would best explain a situation in which a small child is afraid of a guinea pig because he had a previously fearful experience with a hamster?
Stimulus discrimination
Second-order conditioning
Stimulus generalization
Sensory preconditioning
Spontaneous recovery
3 answers
This would be Second-order conditioning. The child was conditioned once with a hamster, and because of this experience applied what was learned to a NEW stimulus...the guinea pig.
Nice try, anonymous, but I would disagree. It is stimulus generalization. The response is generalized from one animal to the other.
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