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While you are stopped at a traffic light and listening to a new song on the radio, you are rear-ended by the driver behind you. You suffer mild whiplash and minor bruising, and you are terribly frightened by the accident. Weeks later, you still get anxious whenever you hear the song that was on the radio at the time of the accident.
-The song playing on the radio at the time of the accident would be the
A) unconditional stimulus.
B) unconditional response.
C) conditional stimulus.
D) conditional response.

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The song playing on the radio at the time of the accident becomes a conditional stimulus because it was a neutral stimulus that, after being paired with the accident (an unconditioned stimulus), now triggers anxiety (a conditioned response).

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