Baby shane liked the taste of dog food. one day, when he was eating dog food, his mother noticed and screamed really loud. this startled shane and made him cry. this happened several times over the next week. now whenever shane passes by the dog food, he feels afraid. in this example of classical conditioning, the conditioned stimulus is:

The answer is dog food. Classical conditioning refers to learning process in which a potent stimulus is harmonized with a former neutral stimulus. The neutral stimulus is also known as the conditioned stimulus (in this question, the dog food). It first brings out no response then when something is associated with the scream of the mother; it became now the conditioned stimulus.