A Researcher Studying Rats Uses a Tone to Signal That

Multiple Choice

A researcher studying rats uses a tone to signal that food is available in the hopper. After a number of tone‒food pairings, the researcher pairs an illuminated light with just the tone. The rat paws, licks, and chews on the illuminated light when the tone is sounded, even though no food is provided in this training stage. This conditioning procedure illustrates the phenomenon of

A) sensory preconditioning.
B) conditioned emotional responding.
C) stimulus generalization.
D) higher order conditioning.