At Jamie's birthday party when he was six, he became nauseated and threw up just as everyone at the party was singing "Happy Birthday" to him.Even now as an adult, Jamie starts to feel queasy anytime he hears the song.His queasiness is the result of:
A)observational learning
B)operant conditioning
C)classical conditioning
D)law of effect

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Jamie's aversion to the song "Happy Birthday" is an example of classical conditioning, where a neutral stimulus (the song) became associated with an unconditioned stimulus (throwing up) that elicited an automatic response (nausea). The song became a conditioned stimulus, and now elicits the conditioned response of queasiness in Jamie.

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