Every Sunday morning when Benjamin was a young child, his family would have a special breakfast complete with freshly baked cinnamon rolls. To this day he finds himself smiling whenever he smells cinnamon rolls baking. The smell of the cinnamon rolls is ____ for his positive feelings.
A) a conditioned stimulus.
B) an unconditioned stimulus.
C) a discriminative stimulus.
D) a cue.

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The smell of baking cinnamon rolls has become associated with positive feelings for Benjamin. This means that it is a conditioned stimulus, because it is a previously neutral stimulus (the smell of cinnamon rolls) that has acquired the ability to elicit a specific response (positive feelings) through its repeated pairing with an unconditioned stimulus (the special breakfasts).

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