Jonas is a veteran of the war in iraq. he suffers from ptsd. now, back home in a quiet california neighborhood, he jumps when he

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Jonas is a veteran of the war in iraq. he suffers from ptsd. now, back home in a quiet california neighborhood, he jumps when he

hears a firecracker or a car backfire. in the terminology of classical conditioning, these sounds are best thought of as _____ stimuli.

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kumpel [21] · Answer 1 · 2021-11-22T14:34:42+03:00

The fact that Jonas suffers from ptsd and when he hears a firecracker or a car backfire he jumps, means that he is experienced conditioned stimuli. The firecracker before Jonas went to Iraq was a neutral stimulus that. But in Iraq it become associated with other unconditioned stimulus and triggered , a conditioned response.