The word "generalize" is used in different, but related, ways by psychologists
When one says that "the laws of operant conditioning generalize," it means that
(a) an organism conditioned in one situation will tend to make the same
conditioned response in a similar situation
(b) an organism conditioned in one situation will tend to make the same
conditioned response in all situations, even completely dissimilar ones
(c) the laws discovered by investigations with one organism will be relevant
to the behavior of other organisms
(d) the laws are "nonspecific," that is, they are too general to be useful in
predicting behavior
C
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