Question

Paul is coming down with the flu, but he eats spaghetti anyway and subsequently becomes violently ill. a month later he sees that spaghetti is being served in the dining hall and is overcome by nausea. what type of learning is illustrated by this episode?

a. operant conditioning
b. cognitive learning
c. latent learning
d. classical conditioning

Answer 1

The answer is "D".

Classical conditioning is a term which alludes to the process where a physically potent stimulus like in the given example spaghetti is connected to a neutral stimulus or the one which in the past was neutral. It also points to the process of learning which is a result of this process and by which that neutral stimulus becomes a response like in the given example nausea.