Initially, an infant has no response to a nurse's white uniform.But after a couple of painful experiences of getting a vaccination shot from a nurse in a white uniform, the infant will react with fear in response to a nurse in a white uniform who simply walks into the examining room. In this example,the sight of a nurse in a white uniform has become a(n) _____to the infant.

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The sight of a nurse in a white uniform has become a conditioned stimulus (CS) to the infant. Initially, the white uniform was a neutral stimulus, but after being paired with the painful experience of getting a vaccination shot, it became associated with the pain and fear response, and therefore became a conditioned stimulus. The conditioned response (CR) would be the fear response of the infant. The unconditioned stimulus (UCS) would be the pain from the vaccination shot, and the unconditioned response (UCR) would be the initial response of the infant to the white uniform before any conditioning had taken place.

Initially, an Infant Has No Response to a Nurse's White