Suppose you eat lobster for the first time, then get the flu and become ill. Now, the thought of eating lobster leaves you with a queasy feeling in your stomach. The mechanism that best describes how you learned the "lobster - sick" association is classical conditioning.

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Classical conditioning is a process by which an organism learns to associate two stimuli. In this scenario, the lobster is the neutral stimulus, and the illness is the unconditioned stimulus. The association between the two is the conditioned response that causes the queasy feeling.

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