Counterconditioning is a behavioral technique in which an unwanted response to a stimulus is replaced with a new, incompatible response by repeatedly pairing that stimulus with something that produces the desired reaction instead. Mary Cover Jones demonstrated the approach in the 1920s by having a fearful child eat a favorite food while a rabbit was gradually brought closer, pairing the previously frightening animal with pleasant feelings until the fear subsided. The principle underlies later therapies such as systematic desensitization, which substitutes relaxation for anxiety.
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Counterconditioning (also called stimulus substitution) is a functional analytic principle that is part of behavior analysis, and involves the conditioning of an unwanted behavior or response to a stimulus into a wanted behavior or response by the association of positive actions with the stimulus.
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Counterconditioning (also called stimulus substitution) is a functional analytic principle that is part of behavior analysis, and involves the conditioning of an unwanted behavior or response to a stimulus into a wanted behavior or response by the association of positive actions with the stimulus.
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