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To assess whether Mrs. Webster had suffered a brain injury, researchers conditioned her to blink in response to a sound that signaled the delivery of a puff of air directed toward her face. In this application of classical conditioning, the sound was a(n)

a) unconditioned stimulus.
b) unconditioned response.
c) conditioned stimulus.
d) conditioned response.

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Answer:

c) conditioned stimulus.

Step-by-step explanation:

Conditioned stimulus: The term conditioned stimulus is a part of the classical conditioning, which is proposed by the behavioral psychologist named Ivan Pavlov. It is defined as a formerly neutral stimulus that after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus triggers a conditioned response. Here, the neutral stimulus doesn't produce any reaction.

In the question above, the sound was a conditioned stimulus.

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