Answer:
Conditional stimulus (CS)
Explanation:
Conditional stimulus: The conditioned stimulus was a neutral stimulus before using in the classical stimulus. The conditioned stimulus was associated with the unconditioned stimulus and triggered the conditioned response. Ivan Pavlov was the first person who used cs, us, UCS, UCR, etc in classical conditioning. Ivan Pavlov noticed that the dog salivate naturally when seeing the food but when food is not delivered and the dog watched only a white coat of lab assistant who delivered the food to the dog even started salivating.