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 type of learning in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and produces a similar response. In this scenario, the lobster was a neutral stimulus that became associated with the illness, which was the meaningful stimulus. The resulting association caused the individual to have a negative response (queasy feeling in the stomach) when thinking about eating lobster.

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