Question

You are conducting an experiment in which you are trying to manipulate the immune response of rats by using the principles of classical conditioning. First, for several days of an experiment, you give rats artificially sweetened water with an immune system-enhancing drug in it. You later remove the drug and notice that the immune systems of rats are boosted when they consume the sweetened water. In your experiment, what is the unconditioned response (UCR)

Answer 1

The unconditional response is to strengthen the immune system as a result of ingesting the drug placed in the water.

Step-by-step explanation:

Unconditional response is the name given to a response, given by the organism, which occurs as an automatic result of an unconditioned stimulus. An unconditioned stimulus, in turn, which is a stimulus that causes responses in the body.

In this case, we can see that the unconditioned stimulus is water sweetened with a drug that strengthens the mice's immune system. In this case, if the rats consume this water, their immune system is automatically strengthened, and this strengthening is the unconditional response of the experiment.