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Every afternoon, you feed your cat canned cat food that you must open with a can opener. One afternoon, before it's time to feed your cat, you decide to open a can of soup for yourself. All of a sudden, your cat begins to meow at your feet as he hears the sound of the can opener. Explain this in terms of classical conditioning. What are the two stimuli the cat is associating in this example? What is the unconditioned stimulus? What is the unconditioned response? What is the conditioned stimulus? What is the conditioned response?

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  • Thing goes "Vrrrrrrrr" when cat gets fed. Cat associates this "Vrrrrrr" sound with food, because they happen around the same time.

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