COUNTER CONDITIONING

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Conditioning in which a second incompatible response is conditioned to an already conditioned stimulus

Example:

counter conditioning lies behind many of the procedures used in behavior therapy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("counter conditioning" is a kind of...):

conditioning (a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment)

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