By snapping your fingers just before you blow a gentle puff of air into someone's eyes, causing them to blink, you can teach them to blink to just the sound of your fingers snapping, even when you no longer blow the puff of air. This is an example of ________.
A) conditioning
B) modeling
C) reinforcement
D) shaping

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This is an example of classical conditioning, where the sound of the fingers snapping acts as a conditioned stimulus that elicits a conditioned response (blink) due to its association with the unconditioned stimulus (puff of air) that initially caused the blink.

By Snapping Your Fingers Just Before You Blow a Gentle