Question

Money can buy candy, and that candy produces happiness. Thus, money is a ________ conditioning.

Answer 1

Answer: money can buy candy, and that candy produces happiness. Thus, money is a conditioned stimulus for the conditioned response of happiness.

Explanation:

In classical conditioning, the conditioned stimulus is referred to a

previously neutrall stimulus, it becomes conditioned stimulus after it has been associated with the unconditioned stimulus(Candy) and it result to a conditioned response.

The previously neutral stimulus (the money) is associated with an unconditioned stimulus ( candy) which naturally and automatically troggers response (happiness). For a while the neutral stimulus is associated with the unconditioned stimulus, then it becomes a conditioned stimulus capable of triggering the conditioned response all on its own.