Question

1. a driver on an icy road goes into a slide and gets into an accident. after this incident, the driver automatically tenses up whenever it snows and sees ice. they now associate the snow with the accident. based on classical conditioning, what is the snow?

multiple choice
unconditioned stimulus
unconditioned response
conditioned response
conditioned stimulus

Explanation:

In classical conditioning, a conditioned stimulus is a previously neutral stimulus (here, snow) that, after being paired with an unconditioned stimulus (the accident that caused stress/fear), comes to trigger a conditioned response (tensing up). The snow was neutral before the accident, but now it elicits a learned reaction, so it is the conditioned stimulus.

Answer:

D. conditioned stimulus