Your friend's mother was always baking ginger-flavored cookies whenever you were at their house.You loved those cookies,and would eat several each time you visited.One day,you noticed that you started to salivate as you walked up the front steps to the house,before you smelled the cookies.The reason for this is that the house has become a(n):
A)unconditioned response.
B)unconditioned stimulus.
C)conditioned response.
D)conditioned stimulus.

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The house has become a conditioned stimulus because it triggers the salivation response due to its association with the ginger-flavored cookies, which are the unconditioned stimulus. This is an example of classical conditioning, where a neutral stimulus (the house) becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus (the cookies) to elicit a conditioned response (salivation).

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