Nicolaus and Nellis used classical conditioning to develop a taste aversion in mongooses.They allowed the animals to eat eggs that had been laced with carboachol, which caused the animals to become ill.Later, the mongooses showed an aversion to eggs.In this example of classical conditioning, the queasiness to eggs was:
A)an unconditioned stimulus
B)a conditioned response
C)an unconditioned response
D)a conditioned stimulus

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The queasiness to eggs is a learned response to the previously neutral stimulus of eggs, which became associated with the illness caused by the conditioned stimulus of carboachol. Therefore, it is a conditioned response.

Nicolaus and Nellis Used Classical Conditioning to Develop a Taste