An office worker has been conditioned to feel stressed upon hearing the specific, sharp chime of their boss's instant-messaging notification on their computer. Recently, they noticed that they also experience a spike in stress when they hear a similar high-pitched beep from a microwave at home.
Explain the feature of classical conditioning known as 'stimulus generalisation' with reference to this scenario.
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