There was a case of an 11-year-old girl who was suffering from a disease in which her own immune system attacked her body. To treat her, researchers first paired cod liver oil with an immune-suppressant drug. Later, when she only received pure cod liver oil
(without the drug), her immune system still showed the intended impairment. In this instance, the conditioned stimulus would be the:

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The conditioned stimulus is the cod liver oil, as it was initially paired with the immune-suppressant drug and later elicited the immune system impairment on its own.

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