In response to hot temperature, your body will sweat reflexively. using Pavlov's terminology, the sweating in response to the hot temperature would be termed a(n):

A. unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
B. unconditioned response (UCR)
C. conditioned stimulus (CS)
D. conditioned response (CR)

What is your answer? We can tell you if you're right or wrong, but can't do your homework for you.

First, do you see sweating as a stimulus or response? Second, is it something that has to be learned (conditioned)?

unconditioned response

To determine the correct answer, let's first understand the concepts of conditioned and unconditioned stimuli and responses as defined by Ivan Pavlov.

The unconditioned stimulus (UCS) is a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any prior conditioning. In this case, the hot temperature would not be considered an unconditioned stimulus since sweating is not an automatic response to hot temperature. Sweating is a learned response by the body to cool itself down.

The unconditioned response (UCR) is the natural and automatic response that occurs in response to the unconditioned stimulus. In this scenario, the sweating would be the unconditioned response as it is the natural bodily response to hot temperature.

On the other hand, the conditioned stimulus (CS) is initially neutral, but through conditioning, it elicits a response. When the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus, it eventually becomes associated with that unconditioned stimulus and can trigger a response on its own.

Lastly, the conditioned response (CR) is the learned response that is triggered by the conditioned stimulus alone, without the presence of the original unconditioned stimulus.

Since the sweating in response to hot temperature is not a learned response but a natural bodily response, the correct answer would be B. unconditioned response (UCR).