Your friends play a practical joke on you and hook a small battery to your computer keyboard. Every time you hit the backspace key, you get a small electric shock. After a while, you involuntarily jerk just before pressing the backspace key. In this example, the ________ is the conditioned stimulus and the _______ is the conditioned response.

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The backspace key is the conditioned stimulus because it is associated with the electric shock, and the jerk before pressing the backspace key is the conditioned response as it is the learned reaction to the conditioned stimulus.

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