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Bill visited a restaurant in the beginning of November and ordered the
chicken. Afterwards,
he became extremely sick. Ever since then, he has been unable to even think about chicken without becoming nauseated. He went home for Thanksgiving and his mother
has cooked a golden brown turkey. He was quite surprised to find that he felt slightly nauseated to the smell and sight of the turkey. However, he didn’t feel nauseated to the smell or sight of the roasted duck his cousin brought to the dinner.
Identify the UCS, UCR, CS, CR and use the principles of stimulus generalization and stimulus discrimination to explain why Bill doesn't feel nauseated by the duck but does when exposed to turkey.
What is:
UCS = Food
poisoning; UCR = becoming si
ck due to poisoning; CS
= chicken; CR = becoming
nauseated at thought of chicken; Bill is experiencing stimulus generalization because the
turkey is very similar to his original CS of chicken. However, the duck is not similar enough to chicken to produce
stimulus generalization and therefore, Bill is experiencing
stimulus discrimination with the duck.