A nursing mother puts her baby to the breast as soon as she hears it cry. After a few days, her milk begins to flow as soon as the baby cries. In terms of classical conditioning, what is the conditioned response?

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The conditioned response in classical conditioning is the learned response to a neutral stimulus that was previously paired with an unconditioned stimulus. In this scenario, the unconditioned stimulus is the baby's cry, which naturally elicits the unconditioned response of milk flow from the mother. Over time, the neutral stimulus (the sound of the baby's cry) becomes associated with the unconditioned stimulus (the milk flow) and elicits a conditioned response, which is the flow of milk in response to the sound of the baby's cry. Therefore, the conditioned response in this scenario is the flow of milk.

A Nursing Mother Puts Her Baby to the Breast as Soon