Imagine that you're at an amusement park, and you're on a ride that's completely in the dark. Every now and then, the ride swerv
es suddenly, which leads you to automatically tense your muscles. Right before each swerve, the ride makes a clanking sound. By the end of the ride, you find that you tense your muscles as soon as you hear the clanking sound. This is an example of because .
Answer: The automatic response to tensing your muscles after you hear the sound of the clanking the rollercoaster makes is an example of the phrase pavlov's dogs, which can refer to classical conditioning because it refers to the habit of automatic response to a stimulus.
