Little Tammy is frightened by thunder and cries when she hears it. During a season of frequent electrical storms, thunder is always preceded by lightning. Now Tammy cries as soon as she sees lightning. In this example, the conditioned stimulus is

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The conditioned stimulus is the stimulus that is consistently paired with an unconditioned stimulus to produce a specific response. In this example, lightning is the conditioned stimulus because it has become associated with the unconditioned stimulus (thunder) that initially produced the response of crying (unconditioned response). Tammy's crying at the sight of lightning is a conditioned response that has been learned through classical conditioning.

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