Don wants to classically condition his roommate, Lloyd, to cringe whenever Don opens the squeaky drawer on his desk. To do this, Don decides to wait until his Lloyd is studying. Don will open the drawer and then toss a table tennis ball toward his roommate's head. Don knows it is important to coordinate the squeaking from the drawer and tossing the ball so they are close together in time. Don is concerned about ____.
A) consequences
B) contiguity
C) contingency
D) confluence

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Don is concerned about contiguity, which refers to the close temporal pairing of the conditioned stimulus (opening the squeaky drawer) and the unconditioned stimulus (tossing the ball) in order to establish a strong conditioned response (Lloyd cringing whenever the drawer is opened).

Don Wants to Classically Condition His Roommate, Lloyd, to Cringe