Buddy knows that when his owner Sally picks up his leash, she is likely to take him for a walk. Therefore, he runs to the door. Sally started ringing a bell just before picking up Buddy's leash for a few days. She presented the bell along with the leash to Buddy over and over again; Buddy ran to the door. Then she tried presenting the bell alone to see if Buddy might now link the bell with the leash. From the bell alone, Buddy ran to the door. Learning theorists would say that Buddy is ________.

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Buddy has been conditioned to associate the sound of the bell with the action of going for a walk. This is a classic example of Pavlovian (or classical) conditioning, where a neutral stimulus (the bell) becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus (the leash, which leads to a walk) to elicit a conditioned response (running to the door).

Buddy Knows That When His Owner Sally Picks Up His