Last year, Dr. Moritano cleaned Natacha's skin with rubbing alcohol prior to administering each of a series of painful rabies vaccination shots. Which of the following processes accounts for the fact that Natacha currently becomes fearful every time she smells rubbing alcohol?

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Natacha's fear of rubbing alcohol after the previous year's painful vaccinations suggests that classical conditioning has occurred, as the pairing of the rubbing alcohol (neutral stimulus) with the unpleasant vaccination experience (unconditioned stimulus) has led to a conditioned response (fear).

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