As a Child, Mary Always Had an Unpleasant Time Whenever

question 68

Multiple Choice

As a child, Mary always had an unpleasant time whenever she visited her cousins. In addition, most of the times she visited, her aunt would serve meatloaf for dinner. As an adult, Mary hates meatloaf. She doesn't even have a conscious recognition that she associates meatloaf with the nasty way her cousins treated her. If her dislike of meatloaf were classically conditioned, the meatloaf would be the

• A) unconditioned stimulus.
• B) unconditioned response.
• C) conditioned response.
• D) conditioned stimulus.

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