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Example of Stimulus Discrimination: Pavlov's Dogs

An example of stimulus discrimination can be seen in Pavlov's experiments. His dogs learned to differentiate between the specific tone that was paired with food and other, similar sounds, such as a doorbell. They only produced a conditioned response (salivation) to the tone that reliably predicted the arrival of food, demonstrating their ability to discriminate between stimuli.

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