Classical conditioning refers to the learning process that takes place when two stimuli are repeatedly paired. Eventually, the unconditioned response that was initiated by the first of the two stimuli (the conditioned stimulus) will be also be initiated by the second one(the unconditioned stimulus) even when the first stimuli is not present and it will have become a conditioned response.

In this example, you usually listen to the 6 o'clock news while waiting for dinner to be served. The first stimulus (conditioned stimulus) would be the dinner and the second one (The unconditioned stimulus) would be the 6 o'clock news.

After a number of times, the only sound of the 6 o'clock news makes your mouth water (conditioned response) even if dinner is not being prepared because, by classical conditioning, you've learned to pair these two stimuli and two have an answer caused by them.

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An employee at a welfare office is so concerned with paperwork that he doesn't have time to administer to the needs of the poor,

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Answer: Ritualist

Explanation:

Ritualist , as per theory of Merton is the person who advocates and follows ritual as their environment or surroundings. These people tend to practice daily work as their ritual ,knowing that it will not help them to achieve goals .

According to the question, welfare employee is a ritualist as he is practicing the paperwork of his welfare office without focusing on requirement of poor , homeless and hungry people and thus would be able to achieve goal of welfare office.

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