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According to this theory, there exists a neutral stimulus, which by itself will not produce a response on the subject under consideration. There also exists a non-neutral or unconditioned stimulus that produces an unconditioned response. However, Pavlov, the author of the theory, noted that the presentation of both the neutral as well as the non-neutral stimulus led to learning by the subject under consideration. In this case, the neutral stimulus is the conditional stimuli (CS) that results to conditional response while the non-neutral stimuli are the unconditional stimuli (US) that produce unconditional response. Cherry (2014) explains this by arguing that conditioned stimulus is learned through association such that when conditioned stimulus is paired by unconditional stimuli, it evokes a conditions stimulus. This respondent conditioning is entirely a physical process and is able to explain the human