In this example, whenever my friend feels like watching "Keeping Up with the Kardashians", I will play the "It's a Small World" soundtrack. This combination should ultimately condition my friends to be annoyed every time they think about "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" rather than being excited to actually watch it. This process then created a conditioned stimulus and a conditioned response. The once neutral stimulus becomes the conditioned stimulus. It triggers a conditioned reaction on the part of an individual, coherent and desired by the subject who created it. The conditioned response is whatever causes the response created by the conditioned stimulus. This was the original goal of those who began classical conditioning and causes the subject to act in a programmed way. In this example, the conditioned response is that my friend will no longer want to watch “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” every time he thinks about
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