Stimulus And Response Generalization

For example when we learn to drive a car most of us can do so with most any type of car in the future without explicit training.

Stimulus and response generalization. This occurs during the classical conditioning process. Stimulus generalization occurs when an organism responds to a stimulus in the same way that it responds to a similar stimulus. She noted that stimulus generalization occurs when a response is occasioned by stimuli that weren t explicitly used in training.

Sometimes individuals are able to discriminate between similar items but in other cases similar stimuli tend to evoke the same response. The fundamental assumptions are a that the stimulus and response confusions go on independently of each other b that the probability of a stimulus confusion is an exponential decay function of the psychological distance between the stimuli and c that the probability of a response confusion is an exponential decay function of the psychological distance between the responses.