Jenny was been bitten by several dogs when she was younger. As an adult, Jenny has an extreme phobia for dogs, and begins to shake if she even sees a dog. Using the language of classical conditioning, dogs have become a ____________.

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In classical conditioning, a conditioned stimulus is something that originally does not elicit a strong emotional response but comes to do so through association with an unconditioned stimulus. In this case, dogs, which initially might not have caused fear in Jenny, have become a conditioned stimulus because they now trigger a fear response due to her past experiences of being bitten.

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