Kid Generalization

What is generalization? Well, according to the text and class discussion, it would be best explained as a trend for learning actions or conducts to come to mind in the presence of other stimuli not in attendance/absent during guidance or learning. Generalization can also be referred to a Stimulus generalization and therefore creates the need for a response generalization. I a good example for these terms would be like a kid have a set of keys given to him and that key set had five (5) keys. These keys go to the child’s favorite toy that is locked behind a glass door, that allows the kid to see the desired toy. The kid attempts to try an open the door repeatedly except for one until he gets it right. Therefore causing a support of a response, with the likelihood of increases the frequency of the kid’s response in using the one key to open the glass door to get the favorite toy. This behavior will seemly spread to other situations not included during this learning process …show more content…
This learned actions does not carry over into different circumstances. The same child sees the favorite toy in the lock case and is given the keys, but sees another kid playing with the same toy. Instead of the child working to get his/her favorite toy, the kid goes over and begin to attempt to play with the other kid’s toy leaving his locked behind the door. Wagner and Rayner's Little Albert study is the famous study in an example of generalization of a CR. Thorndike was the first to report generalization in his experiments involving operant learning. Where he observed cats that had learned to escape the puzzle box (Anderson,