In one type of aversion therapy with alcoholics, a drug is added to an alcoholic beverage so that sipping the beverage causes nausea.Eventually, just the sight and smell of the beverage causes nausea, which hopefully decreases excessive drinking of alcohol.In this treatment, the CS is:
A)the drug that causes nausea
B)the nausea that occurs to the smell of the drink
C)the smell of the drink
D)the nausea that occurs to the drug

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The CS, or conditioned stimulus, in this aversion therapy is the smell of the drink. It is paired with the UCS, or unconditioned stimulus, of the drug that causes nausea, which then creates the UCR, or unconditioned response, of nausea. Over time, the smell of the drink becomes associated with the nausea to become the CS, which then elicits the CR, or conditioned response, of nausea even without the presence of the drug.

In One Type of Aversion Therapy with Alcoholics, a Drug