You are conducting an experiment in which you are trying to manipulate the immune response of rats by using the principles of classical conditioning. First for several days of an experiment, you give rats artificially sweetened water with an immune system-enhancing drug in it. You later remove the drug and notice that the immune systems of rats are boosted when they consume the sweetened water. In your experiment, what is the conditioned stimulus (CS)?
A)The sweetened water
B)The drug
C)The enhanced immune system functioning in response to the drug
D)The enhanced immune system functioning in response to the sweetened water

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The sweetened water is the conditioned stimulus (CS) because it is a neutral stimulus that, through association with the unconditioned stimulus (the drug), comes to elicit a conditioned response (enhanced immune system functioning).

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