Bernstein applied principles of classical conditioning to the study of taste aversion in young patients undergoing chemotherapy.The children were given some unusually flavored ice cream just before the chemotherapy.Later, the children showed an aversion to that flavor of ice cream.In this example of classical conditioning, the flavor of the ice cream was:
A)an unconditioned stimulus
B)a conditioned stimulus
C)an unconditioned response
D)a conditioned response

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The flavor of the ice cream served before chemotherapy was originally a neutral stimulus because it had no association for the children with chemotherapy. After being paired with chemotherapy, the flavor became a conditioned stimulus that elicited a conditioned response (aversion to the flavor).

Bernstein Applied Principles of Classical Conditioning to the Study of Taste