I believe the answer is: the hospital
Conditioned stimulus refers to a stimulus that already become a trigger to a certain response due to the process of classical conditioning. From the example above, alexis start to cry after she saw a hospital. Because of this, we can say that the sight of hospital act as the trigger the elicit the response.
Not gonna answer fully as if I were answering the question, but here are some ideas that might help.
1. I think it can do a bit of both. I’d like to say it does more good but I can see how it could create tension still.
2. For this one change needs to be talked about. This is probably a bad comparison but would the fridge ever get cleaned if you never told the person with that job to do so?
3. Up to you, I get where the question is going but still unclearish
Answer:
you'd have to add a picture to get help
Explanation:
I'm sorry