A puff of air on the surface of your eye will make you blink reflexively. If you hear a buzzer repeatedly just before air is puffed into your eye, eventually you will blink as soon as you hear the buzzer. In this example, the unconditioned stimulus is the
A) eye-blink response to the puff of air.
B) puff of air.
C) buzzer.
D) eye-blink response to the buzzer.

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The unconditioned stimulus is the puff of air, which is the stimulus that elicits the unconditioned response of blinking. The buzzer is the conditioned stimulus that, through pairing with the puff of air, eventually produces a conditioned response of blinking in anticipation of the air being puffed.

A Puff of Air on the Surface of Your Eye