Question

A farmer always uses the same squeaky wheelbarrow to carry feed out to his sheep. when he does this, the sheep head for the feed trough in anticipation. in this example, noise of the wheelbarrow would be a(n):

Answer 1

A farmer always uses the same squeaky wheelbarrow to carry feed out to his sheep. When he does this, the sheep head for the feed trough in anticipation. In this example, noise of the wheelbarrow would be a conditioned stimulus.

Answer 2

In this example, noise of the wheelbarrow would be a conditioned stimulus, because the wheelbarrow was previously neutral stimulus that eventually comes to evoke a conditioned response at the sheeps. This conditioned stimulus (the noise) makes the sheep react because it is associated with something else.