People hear a tone,followed by a puff of air to the eyes,which causes an eyeblink.After a few pairings,people blink their eyes when they hear the tone.In this experiment,what is blinking?

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People hear a tone,followed by a puff of air to the eyes,which causes an eyeblink.After a few pairings,people blink their eyes when they hear the tone.In this experiment,what is blinking?​

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Blinking is the response that is being conditioned (i.e., learned) through the pairing of the tone and the puff of air. Therefore, blinking is the conditioned response (CR) in this experiment. The puff of air is the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) that naturally elicits an unconditioned response (UCR) of blinking. The tone, which initially does not cause blinking, becomes the conditioned stimulus (CS) that eventually elicits the CR of blinking after repeated pairings with the UCS. Therefore, blinking is not the UCS or the CS, but it is both the UCR and the CR in this experiment.

People Hear a Tone,followed by a Puff of Air to the Eyes,which