Gino is allergic to peanuts, and he gets very nauseated when he eats them. While out at a candy store one day, Gino has a sample of fudge that is offered before realizing that it has peanuts in it. As a result, he gets very sick. The next time Gino is in a candy store, he gets terribly nauseated just at the sight of the fudge counter. In this example, the conditioned response is Group of answer choices

Even though you didn't post the answer choices, we can safely say that the conditioned response is feeling nauseated at the sight of the fudge counter.

Explanation:

A conditioned response is a learned behavior triggered by a conditioned stimulus. In other words, a conditioned response is not a natural, automatic response to something, but a response learned because of something that has happened previously.

To Gino, feeling nauseated is an unconditioned response to peanuts. That means it is an automatic response, one that happens naturally as a result of his allergy. At first, fudge is a neutral stimulus, since it does not trigger any automatic response in Gino. However, as soon as he eats the fudge that has peanuts in it, Gino becomes nauseated. Now, his brain has associated the fudge with the nausea. The sight of fudge has become, therefore, a conditioned stimulus that triggers a conditioned response - feeling nauseated.

Simply put, before eating the fudge with peanuts:

Unconditioned stimulus - peanuts

unconditioned response - feeling nauseated

neutral stimulus - fudge

After eating the fudge with peanuts:

conditioned stimulus - fudge

conditioned response - feeling nauseated at the sight of fudge