Discussion
Suppose a child is conditioned to be afraid of a man with a beard who is wearing a grey outfit. If this child meets any stranger with a black outfit and a beard and shows signs of fear, he is said to be displaying ________.
Answer: A
The child displays generalisation learning: fear conditioned to one stimulus spreads to similar ones, here another bearded man in a different outfit. Discrimination learning would be responding to only the original stimulus, and sign learning and stimulus learning are not standard terms for this. Generalisation is the tendency to respond to stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus, and discrimination is learning to respond only to the particular stimulus.
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