Your friends play a practical joke on you and hook a small battery to your computer keyboard. Every time you hit the backspace key, you get a small electric shock. After a while, you involuntarily jerk just before pressing the backspace key. In this example, the ________ is the conditioned stimulus and the _______ is the conditioned response.
A. backspace key; jerk before pressing the backspace key
B. electric shock; backspace key
C. backspace key; electric shock
D. jerk before pressing the backspace key; backspace key
Answer: A
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