As you are cutting up an onion, irritants released by the onion cause your eyes to tear up. Using Classical Conditioning vocabulary, the tears your eyes produced are the: conditioned stimulus (CS) unconditioned response (UCR) unconditioned stimulus (UCS) conditioned response (CR)
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The irritants released by the onion are the cause of your eyes tearing up. In classical conditioning terms, this is the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) because it naturally causes a response without any prior learning. Show more…
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