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Oliver tells a tasteless joke at a party and gets a big laugh. The next day, he tells the same joke in class, thinking people will laugh. Instead, his teacher takes him aside after class and gives him a stern lecture about why he should not say such things about a particular ethnic group. In behaviorist terminology, we could say that Oliver ______

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Answer:

Has generalized from one situation to another inappropriately.

Explanation:

In this case, Oliver has generalized the context of a party with that of the classroom where, in contrast, different rules are held. He believed that the same thing would happen in two different places, with two different stimulus.

Generalization occurs when we think that the response to a stimuli will be the same way that the response to a conditioned stimuli.