You are conducting an experiment in which you are trying to manipulate the immune response of rats by using the principles of classical conditioning.First for several days of an experiment,you give rats artificially sweetened water with an immune system-enhancing drug in it.You later remove the drug and notice that the immune systems of rats are boosted when they consume the sweetened water.In your experiment,what is the conditioned stimulus (CS)?

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The conditioned stimulus (CS) in this experiment is the sweetened water because it is the stimulus that is being paired with the immune system-enhancing drug. The rats are learning to associate the sweetened water with the drug and this association leads to an immune response when the sweetened water is consumed even without the drug.

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