Stimulus control stated in our text is "that the presence of a discriminative stimulus reliably affects the probability of the behavior" (Page 321) This can be linked to the ability for children to develop verbal learning. With stimulus control for example, if a child see's a human being is walking with their dog they with start to see some differences in features and hear the human call this strange being a dog. Then through stimulus generalization which is "the tendency for an operant response to be emitted in the presence of a stimulus that is similar to an SD" (Page 322) the child will be began to have more engagements with the stimulus such as, say the child's parents purchase a dog for her. During this process the child will be in more
