Psychology / Unit 5 Psych 0514 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Stimulus Generalization
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The idea
Stimulus generalization is responding to stimuli that resemble the conditioned stimulus without having been paired themselves.
In practice
A dog conditioned to one tone also salivates, less strongly, to nearby tones.
Where people slip
Generalization is not a training error. It is what makes learning transferable beyond the exact training case.
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