Eleanor wants to use classical conditioning to teach her students to run to the closet when the "intruder alert" sounds at their school.To be successful,Eleanor must begin the learning process with a(n)
A) conditioned stimulus.
B) unconditioned stimulus.
C) conditioned response.
D) unconditioned response.

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In classical conditioning, the unconditioned stimulus is something that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any learning needed. For Eleanor to teach her students to run to the closet when the "intruder alert" sounds, she needs to start with an unconditioned stimulus that naturally causes a response related to safety or urgency, which can then be associated with the intruder alert sound (which will become the conditioned stimulus).

Eleanor Wants to Use Classical Conditioning to Teach Her Students