Examples Of Stimulus Generalization

Stimulus generalization is behaving similarly in different situations. There are various example to stimulus generalization. When you use a remote control to control a television and then you go to another house and use another remote to control the television even though it’s different, you still use it in a similar fashion. As a child, going to Walmart might seem a bit of confusing, especially for your first time in understanding the rules of picking up an item and paying for it. But when you go to target, no one has to tell you what to do because you have already experienced it earlier in Walmart. In this way the act becomes generalized.
Stimulus discrimination is often use to help a learner to differentiate among objects and their features.