Learning to respond in a customary way to a new stimulus that has been paired with an existing stimulus is:
A) habituation.
B) imprinting.
C) classical conditioning.
D) operant conditioning.

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Classical conditioning involves learning to associate a new stimulus with an existing stimulus, leading to a learned response to the new stimulus. This concept was famously demonstrated by Ivan Pavlov through his experiments with dogs, where a neutral stimulus (a bell) was paired with an unconditioned stimulus (food), eventually leading the dogs to respond to the bell alone as they would to food.

Learning to Respond in a Customary Way to a New