Your friend has a dog Rex that she feeds every night immediately after she gets up from the dinner table.You are dog-sitting one weekend and you decide to keep Rex at your house rather than leave him alone in hers.After you eat dinner and get up to clear the table,Rex starts salivating profusely and runs to his food bowl.Rex's behavior is an example of:
A)an automatic reflex.
B)a conditioned response.
C)an irrelevant response.
D)the anticipatory response.
E)permanent conditioning.

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Rex's behavior is a conditioned response because he has learned to associate his owner getting up from the dinner table with being fed, and the same response is triggered even in a different environment. This association has been learned through conditioning, where the owner's action is paired with the act of feeding Rex, thus creating a conditioned response.

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