Every time Benny slices onions, the onions burn his eyes and tears run down his face. One day, he opens the silverware drawer, p
ulls out the knife that he uses only to peel onions, and immediately starts to shed tears from the sight of the knife. In this situation, the onion is the ________, and the knife is the __________.
In classical conditioning, the<em> unconditioned stimulus is one that initiates a response unreservedly, naturally, and automatically. </em>
<em>One may instantly feel very hungry when you smell on</em>e of your favorite dishes. In this instance, the unconditioned stimulus is the aroma of the food.
The conditioned stimulus is a formerly neutral stimulus, <em>which eventually comes to cause a conditioned response after becoming paired with the unconditioned stimulus.</em>