"Every Morning a Train Goes by My House at 6:30

question 86

Multiple Choice

"Every morning a train goes by my house at 6:30 when I am just sitting down to breakfast. Lately, however, the train has been coming by at 4:30 and I am having a terrible time getting back to sleep because I'm so hungry." In this example of classical conditioning, the conditioned stimulus is ________ and the conditioned response is ________.

• A) eating breakfast; hunger
• B) the sound of the train; going back to sleep
• C) the sound of the train; hunger
• D) hunger; eating breakfast

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Definitions:

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