Ed noticed that whenever he used his electric can opener,his cat would come into the kitchen and act hungry-drooling and mewing pitiably.He reasoned that because he used the can opener to open the cat's food,the sound of the can opener had become a/an:
A)unconditioned stimulus.
B)conditioned stimulus.
C)conditioned response.

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The sound of the can opener initially had no association with the cat's hunger. However, through repeated pairing with the cat's food being opened, the sound of the can opener became associated with food, and thus became a conditioned stimulus that elicited the cat's conditioned response of acting hungry.

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