Dave has a pet fish named Guppy. Dave habitually turns on the fish tank's light every morning prior to feeding Guppy. After a while, Dave notices that Guppy swims right to the top of the tank as soon as he turns on the light. In this example, the ___________ is the CONDITIONED STIMULUS.

Stimulus is anything which leads to response. Unconditional stimulus are natural or automatic in human beings or organisms. Conditional stimulus are a result of learned behaviour. These are previously neutral stimulus, connected with unconditioned stimulus & give conditioned responses

As per the given example case :

Food : Unconditional stimuli developing - hunger & 'going towards' unconditional response in Guppy
Light on - Otherwise being neutral stimuli, now having associated with 'feeding time' signal. It leads to conditioned stimuli of Guppy going right to the top (expecting food).

rowboatontario rowboatontario · Answer 2 · 2022-03-28T06:35:56+02:00

Guppy swims right to the top right after Dave turns on the light. In this example, the Turning on the Light is the Conditioned Stimulus.

Conditioned Stimulus

Stimulus is of two types, natural/unconditional or manual/conditional. The natural stimulus are intial instincts for survival found in every human and organisms, while conditional stimulus are the result of learned behaviour which is taught to animals.

In this question Dave gave his pet fish food just after turning on the light, here fish is attracted towards food due to natural stimulus, while the turning the light on makes fish to believe that it is associated with Food.

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