When Pavlov placed meat powder in the mouths of canine subjects,they began to salivate.His student noticed that after being brought to the laboratory a number of times,the dogs would begin to salivate at the sound of the person's footsteps.The footsteps acted as a/an:
A)unconditioned response.
B)unconditioned stimulus.
C)conditioned response.
D)conditioned stimulus.

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The footsteps acted as a conditioned stimulus because they were originally neutral and did not elicit a response from the dogs, but after being paired with the unconditioned stimulus (meat powder), they became associated with the unconditioned response (salivating). The dogs learned to associate the sound of the footsteps with the presentation of the meat powder and would salivate in response to the footsteps alone.

When Pavlov Placed Meat Powder in the Mouths of Canine