Pavlov just finished training his dog to salivate at the sound of a bell. When Pavlov sounds the bell, the dog begins to slobber. In this instance when the dog slobbers at the sound, the slobbering is a (n) : a. conditioned stimulus b. unconditioned stimulus c. unconditioned response d. conditioned response

Conditioned response

Explanation:

The explanation lies in behavioral theory. This starts from the theory that each conditional reflex is learned based on a pre-existing reflex or unconditional reflex.

Pavlov's reflex was evidenced through experiments with dogs, where the unconditional reflex was the production of saliva in response to a food delivery stimulus. This would mean that when a dog is hungry when it sees food, its saliva starts to leak.

On this basis, Pavlov taught the dogs a new reflex that they did not know at the time. He tried to cause the same reaction as drooling by some other stimuli. So he taught the dogs to drool at the sound of the bell. To achieve this, he first presented them with food and bells together.

The dogs connected to each other, and after that, they responded immediately to the bells themselves, as if they had been given food at the same time, even though they might not have been there at that moment. It was a conditional reflex. In order for this whole procedure to be successful, the dogs should first be shown the sound of the bell, and only then the food.