Emotional response to a particular stimulus acquired through classical conditioning

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What type of response does a stimulus get in classical conditioning?

In classical conditioning, the conditioned response (CR) is the learned response to the previously neutral stimulus. In Ivan Pavlov's experiments in classical conditioning, the dog's salivation was the conditioned response to the sound of a bell.

What are the responses in classical conditioning?

In classical conditioning, a conditioned response is a learned response to a previously neutral stimulus. For example, the smell of food is an unconditioned stimulus, a feeling of hunger in response to the smell is an unconditioned response, and the sound of a whistle when you smell the food is a conditioned stimulus.

How can emotional responses be classically conditioned?

Classical Conditioning occurs when an initial neutral stimulus (in other words a stimuli unable to activate the innate emotional system, so that it does not elicit emotional reactions, for instance a neutral sound) becomes paired to another stimuli, UCS, which elicits a biological relevant response, termed ...