Compensatory drug reactions, such as those to injections of insulin or heroin, offer the strongest support to which of the following ideas?
A) The CR is a weak duplicate of the UR.
B) Extinction is more a suppression of the CR than a forgetting of the conditioning process.
C) The CS acts as an anticipatory signal for the US.
D) The conditioned response suppression is a good index of CERs.

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Compensatory drug reactions involve physiological reactions that are opposite to the drug's effects, which occur in anticipation of the drug's effects. This strongly supports the idea that the conditioned stimulus (e.g. injection of heroin) acts as an anticipatory signal for the unconditioned stimulus (e.g. the effects of heroin), as seen in choice C.

Compensatory Drug Reactions, Such as Those to Injections of Insulin