If you wanted to use classical conditioning to get your friends to blink their eyes in response to the word "apple" what would you do?
A) Pair the word "apple" with a puff of air to the eyes.
B) Reinforce eye blinking with a slice of an apple.
C) Reinforce eye blinking to the word "apple" with a dollar.
D) Use punishment by application whenever your friend did not blink when hearing the word "apple."

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This scenario is an example of classical conditioning, where a neutral stimulus (word "apple") is paired with an unconditioned response (blink reflex) to become a conditioned response. The most effective way to achieve this would be to pair the word "apple" with an unconditioned stimulus that would elicit the blink reflex, such as a puff of air to the eyes. This would create an association between the word and the blink response, leading to the eventual conditioned response of blinking at the sound of the word alone. Reinforcing eye blinking with a slice of apple (B) would be an example of operant conditioning, and would not necessarily lead to the desired classical conditioning response. Reinforcing with a dollar (C) would also not be effective without an initial pairing of the word with the unconditioned stimulus. Punishment by application (D) is not an appropriate or ethical method in this scenario.

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