At your elementary school, there was a bell in the classroom that told you when it was lunchtime. At middle school a clock on the wall indicated it was time to change class, which was also signaled by a bell. Every time you looked at the clock in high school, you felt hungry. You were affected by
A) stimulus generalization.
B) higher order conditioning.
C) sensory preconditioning.
D) conditioned emotional responding.

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Higher order conditioning occurs when a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a conditioned stimulus, leading to a conditioned response. In this case, the clock (neutral stimulus) became associated with the bell (conditioned stimulus) that signaled lunchtime, leading to the conditioned response of feeling hungry.

At Your Elementary School, There Was a Bell in the Classroom