One Saturday, Clayton Was Sitting at Home When the Telephone

Multiple Choice

One Saturday, Clayton was sitting at home when the telephone rang. A local company was making promotional calls and told Clayton he had just won a R500 gift certificate. He felt a rush of excitement at the thought of what he could do with R500. Now Clayton finds that whenever he hears a telephone ring, he feels a little surge of excitement. In this example, the conditioned response is

A) the surge of excitement that Clayton feels whenever he hears a telephone ring.
B) the ringing of a telephone.
C) the news that he had just won a R500 gift certificate.
D) the rush of excitement he felt when he won the certificate.