Question

​ Joseph goes out with his friends for pizza. Unbeknownst to him, he is coming down with a stomach virus. When the nausea associated with the virus kicks in, he vomits. Now, Joseph cannot even look at a pizza without feeling nauseous. In this example, the conditioned stimulus is ____.

Answer 1

the pizza

Step-by-step explanation:

According to the theory of behaviourism, the conditioned stimulus is that element that, being initially neutral and not provoking in the person any reaction by itself, acquires the property of generating a response to the association with another stimulus that does generate a reaction. In this case, it was the virus that caused nausea but the conditioned stimulus was the food seeing as something that caused discomfort in Joseph.