Suzanne has a cat and uses a pet carrier to take her cat to the veterinarian. After a few years, the cat runs away and hides every time Suzanne gets the carrier out. Which best describes the cat's behavior? instinct reflex conditioned imprinting

conditioned

Explanation:

conditioned

Explanation:

The best term to describe the behavior of the cat is conditioned.

The cat has been conditioned to respond in a specific way to the pet carrier over time due to certain experiences - most likely, unpleasant ones. With repeated unpleasant experience associated with the per carrier, the cat has been conditioned to dislike/fear the pet carrier and thus, the recorded behavior.

explanation:

metals have excess of electrons whereas non-metals have deficiency of electrons. thus, in order to gain stability metals easily donate their electrons to the non-metals.

for example, electronic configuration of sodium is and electronic configuration of phosphorous is .

when a phosphorous atom and sodium atom combine together then sodium will donate is extra one electron to the phosphorous atom. as a result there will be formation of ionic bond between sodium and phosphorous.

the reaction will be as follows.

there, are three sodium sodium atoms and each of them will donate its one extra electron to phosphorous atom. thus, the sub-shell of phosphorous gets completely filled.  

thus, we can conclude that electrons are transferred from atoms of sodium to atoms of phosphorous. this transfer makes the sodium atoms donate one electron and the phosphorous atoms to gain one electron. as a result, the sodium and phosphorus atoms strongly attract each other.

your answer is a. the enthalpy of formation for a pure element in its standard state is always positive.