A puff of air is directed toward a rabbit's eyeball. The air puff causes the rabbit to blink. Just before the air hits the eyeball, a light is presented. Successive pairing of the air and the light eventually lead to the situation in which the light alone is capable of eliciting a blink. What is the Unconditioned Stimulus for the rabbit in this example?

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The air puff is the Unconditioned Stimulus

An air puff is "unconditioned" and will naturally require the rabbit to blink

Unconditioned Stimulus - Air Puff

Unconditioned Response - Blinking due to Air Puff

Conditioned Stimulus - Light

Conditioned Response - Blinking due to Light because it is paired with Air Puff

A puff of air is directed toward a rabbit's eyeball. The air puff causes the rabbit to blink.  Just before the air hits the eyeball, a light is presented.

The unconditioned stimulus for the rabbit in this example is Air puff.

           According to Pavlov's experiment, An unconditioned stimulus emerges as a result of an automatic response to stimuli. It is unconditional in nature and triggers automatically.

           The air puff is the unconditioned stimuli because it is an object directed towards the eye which results in the blinking of the eyeball. The unconditioned response which cannot be controlled is the blinking of the eye.

           Therefore, we can conclude that the unconditioned stimulus for the rabbit is the air puff.

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