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Alanna knows that a startling noise will always make people blink their eyes. Alanna has learned to associate a soft blue light with a startling noise, causing her to blink when she sees the soft blue light. When she blinks after seeing the soft blue light, she is showing a(n)

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Answer:conditioned response

Step-by-step explanation:

According to classical conditioning, the conditioned response is a learned from a previously neutral stimulus.

For example if a dog is given food daily by whistling first to call it, over time the dog will associate whistling with food , then whistling is a conditioned stimulus which is associated with unconditioned stimulus which is food.

Conditioned response is learned whilst unconditioned response occurs naturally and automatic without prior learning such as a dog salivating at the taste of it food.

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