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Whenever Marva has a difficult day at work, she slams her car door and screams at her children as soon as she enters her house. The children now cringe whenever they hear the sound of a car door.
The fact that the children now cringe when they hear any car door slam is an example of
(A) acquisition.
(B) generalization.
(C) spontaneous recovery.
(D) discrimination.
(E) extinction.
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Answer
(B) generalization.
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Explanation
The fact that the children now cringe when they hear any car door slam is an example of generalization since the children have generalized their response (CR) to the sound of their mother’s car door slamming to the sound of all car doors slamming. Discrimination would be the opposite phenomenon—if the children learned to cringe only to the sound of their mother’s car door and not other car doors. Acquisition in this example is when the children began to cringe to the sound of their mother’s slamming car door. Extinction is the opposite of acquisition—if Marva learned to manage her anger and stop screaming at her children, they would eventually unlearn the cringing response to the sound of her car door. Spontaneous recovery would be if, after extinguishing the cringe response, the children at a later date cringed again upon hearing a slamming car door.
Posted : 04/04/2024 4:06 pm