You decide that you are going to condition your dog to salivate to the sound of a metronome. You sound the metronome and then several minutes later you give the dog a biscuit. You do this several times but no conditioning seems to occur. This is probably because

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The principle of classical conditioning suggests that for conditioning to occur, the conditioned stimulus (in this case, the sound of the metronome) and the unconditioned stimulus (the biscuit) need to be presented close together in time. A long delay between the two, as described, would make it difficult for the dog to associate the sound with the food, thus hindering the conditioning process.

You Decide That You Are Going to Condition Your Dog