If a tone that regularly signals food triggers a salivation response, then a light that becomesassociated with that tone may also begin to trigger salivation. This best illustrates

This question lacks options, options are:  

A) latent learning.

B) the law of effect.

C) higher-order conditioning.

D) a variable-ratio schedule.

The correct answer is C.

Explanation:

Higher-order conditioning learning process whereby once a conditioned response has been established, the conditioned stimulus can serve, in turn, as an unconditioned stimulus to establish an unconditioned response to a third stimulus, that is, it is a process which is carried out after doing a classic or response conditioning, in this it is intended that the conditioned stimulus (and because it generates a conditioned response) is associated with another (neutral) stimulus, so that a new conditioning is carried out between these it could be understood that first there is a stimulus that becomes conditioned and second this stimulus is associated with another, so that the second (new neutral stimulus) begins to generate the responses of the first (conditioned stimulus).

using the scientific method.