Charlie Parker has experienced several pairings of electric shock with the Debbie Gibson song "Reverse Psychology" and has been successfully conditioned to react with anxiety to the song. Now, instead of being paired with the shock, the song is paired with a flashing green light (a previously neutral stimulus). If Charlie still reacts with anxiety when the green light is flashed without the song, he will have

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Higher-order conditioning occurs when a neutral stimulus is paired with a conditioned stimulus, and the neutral stimulus eventually elicits the conditioned response on its own. In this case, the green light becomes a new conditioned stimulus that elicits anxiety, even without the song.

Charlie Parker Has Experienced Several Pairings of Electric Shock with the Debbie