Question

For several weeks, allen had to clean the men's restroom at the restaurant where he worked. the task always made him nauseated. he has since gone on to better things, but still cannot walk by the door to a men's restroom without becoming slightly queasy. for allen, the door to the men's room has become a/an __________.

Answer 1

The door to the men's room has become a conditioned stimulus. The conditioned stimulus is a formerly neutral stimulus that became a conditioned stimulus after being attributed to an unconditioned stimulus. This is best known in Pavlov's Classical conditioning. It is also known that a neutral stimulus is an event that does not incite a response from the subject.