Bernstein applied principles of classical conditioning to the study of taste aversion in young patients undergoing chemotherapy. The children were given some unusually flavored ice cream just before the chemotherapy. Later, the children showed an aversion to that flavor of ice cream. In this example of classical conditioning, the flavor of the ice cream was:

a. an unconditioned stimulus
b. a conditioned stimulus
c. an unconditioned response
d. a conditioned response


B

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