Molly Automatically Feels Happy Every Time She Has Pizza for Dinner

question 24

Multiple Choice

Molly automatically feels happy every time she has pizza for dinner. Molly's mom always gets her pizza from The Pizza Shoppe. At first, pulling into The Pizza Shoppe parking lot does not affect the way Molly feels. But after a while, Molly starts to feel happy just when the car turns into The Pizza Shoppe lot because she knows it means they will have pizza for dinner. In this example, The Pizza Shoppe parking lot is the ____.

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

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