Madison met her first serious boyfriend when she was working a summer job at a café on the beach at an oceanfront resort. Years later, when Madison smells the distinctive scent of saltwater and sand, she still feels a twinge of sadness, remembering the end of their romance when they both returned to their separate colleges in the fall. In this example, the conditioned stimulus is _____ and the conditioned response is _____.

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The conditioned stimulus is the smell of the ocean because it is what Madison associates with her past relationship. The conditioned response is sadness because it is the emotional response that Madison experiences when she smells the ocean due to that past association.

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