A monkey has learned through classical conditioning that if a buzzer sounds it's feeding time.When the buzzer sounds, the monkey runs rapidly to where the bananas will be placed in the cage.A bell is now paired repeatedly with the buzzer, but the monkey continues to respond only to the buzzer.This is because of the phenomenon known as:
A)hypnotic hypermnesia
B)blocking
C)retrograde amnesia
D)chunking

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This is an example of blocking, where a previously learned association between the buzzer and feeding has blocked the monkey from learning the association between the bell and feeding through classical conditioning. The monkey already has a strong association between the buzzer and feeding, so the addition of the bell doesn't provide any new information for it to learn.

A Monkey Has Learned Through Classical Conditioning That If a Buzzer