Steven Spielberg's classic movie Jaws was a thriller about a great white shark that terrorized tourists at a local beach. Just before the shark's appearance, eerie music began playing. As the unseen shark came closer, the tempo of the music picked up. After the audience had experienced this a few times, the sound of the music triggered the emotional reaction of fear in the audience even though the shark still had not appeared. At that point, fear in response to the sound of the eerie music was a(n):

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The fear response triggered by the sound of the eerie music is a conditioned response (CR). It is a learned response that has been associated with the unconditioned response (UCR) of fear caused by the shark's appearance. The music has become a conditioned stimulus (CS) that elicits the conditioned response (CR) of fear, even in the absence of the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) of the shark.

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