When a neutral stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus,the process is
A) operant conditioning.
B) primary reinforcement.
C) Skinnerian conditioning.
D) classical conditioning.

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The process described is classical conditioning, in which a neutral stimulus (conditioned stimulus) becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus that already elicits a certain response, resulting in the neutral stimulus also evoking that response.

When a Neutral Stimulus Acquires the Capacity to Evoke a Response