When she was 7 years old, Wendy was bitten by a neighbor's dog and subsequently developed a fear of nearly all dogs. According to a conditioning account of phobias, the dog that initially bit Wendy served as a(n) __________.

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The dog that initially bit Wendy served as a conditioned stimulus because it was a neutral stimulus that, after being paired with the unconditioned stimulus (the bite), came to elicit the conditioned response (fear of dogs).

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