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 associated with the fear and pain of getting an injection, therefore it has become a conditioned stimulus (CS).

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