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) is the sweetened water, as it is the previously neutral stimulus that, after being paired with the drug, now elicits the immune response on its own.

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