Question

Your friend's mother was always baking ginger-flavored cookies whenever you were at their house. You loved those cookies, and would eat several each time you visited. One day, you noticed that you started to salivate as you walked up the front steps to the house, before you smelled the cookies. The reason for this is that the house has become a(n):

Answer 1

Conditioned stimulus.

Step-by-step explanation:

The classical conditioning may be defined as the condition in which the previous stimulus combined with neutral stimulus becomes the stronger stimulus. The stronger stimulus is conditioned stimulus.

As the mother's bake cookies, this acts as neutral stimulus. The taste and smell makes this stimulus a strong stimulus. The cookies smell acts as the conditioned stimulus for the individuals.

Thus, the answer is conditioned stimulus.