A conditioned stimulus is
A) an unlearned reaction.
B) something that causes a response after learning takes place.
C) something that causes a response without learning.
D) a reflexive,natural reaction.

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A conditioned stimulus is an initially neutral stimulus that comes to trigger a particular response after association with an unconditioned stimulus, which naturally triggers that response. This process is a fundamental concept in classical conditioning, a type of learning discovered by Ivan Pavlov.

A Conditioned Stimulus Is