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conditioned stimulus

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noun

  1. psychol a stimulus to which an organism has learned to make a response by classical conditioning Compare unconditioned stimulus

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The digestive system had been activated by the nervous system through a conditioned stimulus.

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Thus, the ringing of the bell became the conditioned stimulus and the salivation became the conditioned response.

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Design an experiment to test the use of conditioning using the administration of cyclosporine as the unconditioned stimulus and sugar water as the conditioned stimulus by measuring the blood concentration of interleukin.

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