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Example of Stimulus Discrimination: Moisha the Cancer Patient
A cancer patient named Moisha provides a human example of stimulus discrimination. She learned to associate feeling ill with visits to her oncologist, but not with visits to other types of doctors, such as for an annual physical. This shows she could distinguish between different medical settings and only produced the conditioned response of nausea in the specific context associated with chemotherapy.
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A service dog is trained to nudge its owner's leg when it hears a specific, high-pitched smoke alarm. During training, the dog is exposed to various other sounds, such as a doorbell, a telephone ringing, and a lower-pitched fire truck siren, but it is only rewarded for responding to the smoke alarm. After training, the dog reliably nudges its owner at the sound of the smoke alarm but ignores the other sounds. Which statement best explains the dog's behavior?
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