A young child has learned to associate the sight of a nurse's white uniform with the fear and pain of getting an injection. Using Pavlov's terminology, when the white uniform elicits a fear response, it would be termed a(n):
A)unconditioned stimulus (UCS).
B)unconditioned response (UCR).
C)conditioned stimulus (CS).
D)conditioned response (CR).

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The white uniform has become a conditioned stimulus (CS) because it is associated with the fear and pain of getting an injection (which is the unconditioned stimulus, UCS). The fear response to the white uniform is now a conditioned response (CR) because it is learned through association with the UCS.

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