If you usually listen to the 6 o'clock news while waiting for dinner to be served, you would tend to associate the news with dinner, and eventually the sound of the 6 o'clock news alone might cause your mouth to water even if dinner was not being prepared. This is known as ________.
A) instrumental conditioning
B) classical conditioning
C) conditional learning
D) behavioral learning
E) perceptual learning

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This scenario is an example of classical conditioning, a learning process first described by Ivan Pavlov. In classical conditioning, a neutral stimulus (the 6 o'clock news) becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus (dinner) that naturally produces an unconditioned response (mouth watering). Over time, the neutral stimulus alone can elicit a conditioned response (mouth watering in anticipation of dinner) without the unconditioned stimulus being presented.

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