Suppose your alarm made a slight clicking sound just before the alarm goes off. Even though you didn't wake up to the clicking sound initially, now you do, due to classical conditioning. In this example, waking up is

A) the conditioned stimulus.
B) both the conditioned response and the unconditioned response.
C) both the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus.
D) the unconditioned response.

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Arshdeep Singh · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : B, Explanation :  In classical conditioning, the conditioned response is the learned response to the previously neutral stimulus, which in this case is waking up to the clicking sound. Initially, waking up was an unconditioned response to the alarm sound (the unconditioned stimulus). Over time, the clicking sound (which becomes the conditioned stimulus) alone is enough to elicit waking up, making it both the conditioned and unconditioned response in this scenario.

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