Sometimes real estate agents will provide fresh baked chocolate chip cookies at open house tours in hopes that the buyers will associate the smell of cookies with positive feelings of home. What type of conditioning are they applying?

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Brandon Hutchinson

Social Studies

17 May, 17:58

Sometimes real estate agents will provide fresh baked chocolate chip cookies at open house tours in hopes that the buyers will associate the smell of cookies with positive feelings of home. What type of conditioning are they applying?

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classical conditioning

Explanation:

Classical conditioning which is also known as Pavlovian conditioning was developed by Pavlov, a Russian Physiologist. This describes a form of learning through association whereby two stimuli are coordinated and linked

to produce a new learned response in a person or animal such as weay find above. Linking the smell of freshly baked cookies to positive feelings of home is a learned response unconsciously developed by individuals in their homes and used in the tour to bring these positive feelings.