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 queasiness to the ice cream was:
A)a conditioned response
B)an unconditioned stimulus
C)an unconditioned response
D)a conditioned stimulus

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The aversion to the flavor of ice cream is a response that is learned through association with the chemotherapy treatment, which is the unconditioned stimulus. Therefore, the queasiness to the ice cream is a conditioned response, as it is a response that is conditioned to the experience of chemotherapy.

Bernstein Applied Principles of Classical Conditioning to the Study of Taste