You are a big fan of your grandmother's chocolate chip cookies. Just the smell of them causes you to feel hungry. One night she is making chocolate chip oatmeal almond cookies, a variation of her usual recipe. You smell the baking cookies and even though it is different than her usual cookie scent, you still suddenly feel hungry for a treat. This demonstrates the classical conditioning principle of .

stimulus generalization

Explanation:

Generalization is simply the act of learning to react similarly in the presence of similar (but no identical) stimuli.

Stimulus Generalization is the usual or the same reaction or response to a slightly different stimulus. It is simply defined as the method with which individual use to reinforce a reaction or response in the presence of a stimulus or situation and also effect of the response that happens a lot and frequently. An example is teaching an individual about cats. Thinking Wiener, lab are all "cats".