Higher-order conditioning occurs when a conditioned response acts as an unconditioned response.

The statement is false. In higher-order conditioning, a stimulus that has already become a conditioned stimulus is paired with a new neutral stimulus and serves as the unconditioned stimulus for that new learning. It is the conditioned stimulus—not the conditioned response—that plays this role, so “(choice f in the question text)” is correct.

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