Marcel sat at a cafe eating the best croissant he had ever tasted. He begins frequenting the café to order the croissants. He hardly notices the jingling of the cash register just before the clerk hands him the croissant. Now every time he hears the same kind of jingling from another cash register, his mouth waters. Marcel's learning is an example of

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Marcel's learning is an example of classical conditioning, where the sound of the jingling cash register (a neutral stimulus) becomes associated with the pleasure of eating a croissant (an unconditioned stimulus), leading to the jingling sound alone triggering his mouth to water (a conditioned response).

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