Ever since Allison vomited all over her boyfriend after she ate a chicken salad sandwich that had been sitting in the sun all day, she becomes nauseous at the smell or taste of chicken salad. In this example, the conditioned stimulus is _____ and the conditioned response is nausea.
A conditioned stimulus is the one which was previously a neutral stimulus but hen it gets paired with the unconditioned stimulus it leads to a conditioned response.
The learned response which is produced in response to a neutral stimulus is the conditioned response.
In the given condition the smell or taste of a chicken salad causes Allison to feel nauseated and hence, the taste or smell of a chicken salad is the conditioned stimulus which generates a conditioned response which in this case is nausea.
