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generalization (psychology)  

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  • Generalization occurs when behavior in one environment changes by virtue of reinforcement contingencies imposed on that behavior in a second environment that has stimuli in common with the first. As a laboratory example, if pecking a green disk by a pigeon is followed by food, pecking will also increase somewhat if the disk becomes blue or yellow.

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