Georgia likes to make tuna fish sandwiches for lunch. She uses her electric can opener and then usually gives the can with a few bits of tuna left inside to the cat as a treat. Georgia recently noticed that the cat comes running into the kitchen every time she uses her can opener to open anything, not just tuna fish. The cat's behavior when it hears the sound of the can opener is a result of:

classical conditioning  

Explanation:

The cat's behavior when it hears the sound of the can opener is a result of classical conditioning. Classical conditioning is a learning process whereby a conditioned stimulus such as the sound of a can opener becomes associated with an unrelated unconditioned stimulus to produce a conditioned response such as the running of the dog to the kitchen.

The behaviour of George's dog is an example of classical conditioning, the dog now associates the sound of can opener to the making of tuna fish sandwich.