Billy Bob's Big Burger Barn is your favourite restaurant,and lately you've noticed that every time you walk by there on your way to class,your mouth starts to salivate.In this incidence of classical conditioning,the sight of the restaurant is the _____ and your salivation is the _____.

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The sight of the restaurant is a conditioned stimulus (CS) that has been paired with the unconditioned stimulus (US) of the delicious food, resulting in the conditioned response (CR) of salivation. The salivation is not the unconditioned response (UR) because it is not an automatic response to the sight of the restaurant, but has been learned through association with the food.

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