Question

Sometimes real estate agents will provide freshly baked chocolate chip cookies at open houses in hopes that potential buyers will associate the smell of the cookies with positive feelings about the house. In this case, they are applying __________ conditioning techniques.

Answer 1

The answer is: Classical conditioning

Step-by-step explanation:

Classical conditioning refers to the learning method that involves pairing of the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus to produce a unconditioned response.

In this process, the conditioned stimulus is a neutral environmental stimulus, which when paired with a biologically significant unconditioned stimulus triggers an unlearned reflex unconditioned response.

In the given example, conditioned stimulus is the chocolate chip cookies, unconditioned stimulus is the smell of the cookies and the positive feeling is the unconditioned response.