Billy Bob's Big Burger Barn is your favorite restaurant, and lately you've noticed that every time you walk by there on your way to class, your mouth starts to salivate. In this incidence of classical conditioning, the sight of the restaurant is the _____; your salivation is the _____.

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The sight of the restaurant is the conditioned stimulus (CS) because it is a previously neutral stimulus that now triggers a response due to association. Your salivation is the conditioned response (CR) because it is the learned response to the conditioned stimulus.

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