The typical effect of heroin is a decrease in blood pressure (the UCR),whereas the cues associated with taking heroin,such as a bathroom stall in a seedy nightclub,will,through conditioning,come to elicit an increase in blood pressure (the CR).This means that when the addict enters the bathroom stall,she will experience an immediate increase in blood pressure,which then helps to prevent blood pressure from dropping too low when the heroin is injected.This experience occurs due to
A)pseudoconditioning.
B)conditioned compensatory responses.
C)classically conditioned fetishism.
D)latent inhibition.

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This phenomenon is known as conditioned compensatory responses, where the body learns to compensate for the effects of the drug by producing physiological responses opposite to the drug's effects. In this case, the body learns to increase blood pressure in anticipation of the heroin's blood pressure-lowering effects.

The Typical Effect of Heroin Is a Decrease in Blood