Women who breast-feed their infants often notice that the crying of any infant will trigger a reflex in which breast milk is ejected even when they are not nursing at the moment.In this case,the suckling of a woman's own infant is the:
A) unconditioned stimulus.
B) conditioned stimulus.
C) unconditioned response.
D) conditioned response.

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The unconditioned stimulus is the crying of any infant, which triggers the unconditioned response of breast milk ejection. The suckling of a woman's own infant is not a stimulus but rather the trigger for the response, so it is not a conditioned stimulus or response.

Women Who Breast-Feed Their Infants Often Notice That the Crying