A 25-Year-Old Graduate Student with a History of Recurrent Ear

A 25-year-old graduate student with a history of recurrent ear infections as a child feels anxious and sweats when she is in the examination room with her primary care physician.  She recently got a roommate, a nursing student, who leaves her stethoscope on the coffee table after returning from class.  The patient sweats and feels her heart start to race whenever she sees the stethoscope.  This patient's response to her roommate's stethoscope is an example of which of the following phenomena?

A) Classical conditioning
B) Negative punishment
C) Negative reinforcement
D) Operant conditioning
E) Reaction formation
F) Regression

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