Once an animal is classically conditioned, what will the animal experience in response to a conditioned stimulus?

Once an animal is classically conditioned, what will the animal experience in response to a conditioned stimulus?

• A. Generalization
• B. Extinction
• C. Conditioned response
• D. Unconditioned response

Answer: (C)

In classical conditioning, once the association is learned, the conditioned stimulus will trigger a learned response—the conditioned response. This is the reflex that has been shaped by pairing the conditioned stimulus with the unconditioned stimulus. For example, a bell (the conditioned stimulus) paired with food (the unconditioned stimulus) causes the dog to salivate to the bell alone (the conditioned response). If the bell keeps ringing without the food, the conditioned response fades over time (extinction). Generalization would occur if similar sounds provoke a similar response, and the unconditioned response is the natural reflex to the unconditioned stimulus, not the result of the conditioned stimulus after conditioning.

In classical conditioning, once the association is learned, the conditioned stimulus will trigger a learned response—the conditioned response. This is the reflex that has been shaped by pairing the conditioned stimulus with the unconditioned stimulus. For example, a bell (the conditioned stimulus) paired with food (the unconditioned stimulus) causes the dog to salivate to the bell alone (the conditioned response). If the bell keeps ringing without the food, the conditioned response fades over time (extinction). Generalization would occur if similar sounds provoke a similar response, and the unconditioned response is the natural reflex to the unconditioned stimulus, not the result of the conditioned stimulus after conditioning.