Tim owns a cat who licks her chops when she hears cellophane cat food packets being opened.This is not a skill she or her wild ancestors learned in the jungle.According to a classical conditioning account,the cellophane sound is
A) a conditioned stimulus
B) an unconditioned stimulus.
C) a conditioned response.
D) an unconditioned response.

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The cellophane sound is a conditioned stimulus because it is a previously neutral stimulus (not inherently associated with cat food) that has been paired with the unconditioned stimulus of cat food, resulting in the cat learning to associate the sound with the food and exhibiting a conditioned response (licking her chops).

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