Conditioning is a procedure used in CBT. In this procedure, the fear-triggering stimulus is linked to a new response that is incompatible with fear. In other words, the response to a conditioned stimulus is changed (Myers, 2006; Baron, Byrne & Kantowitz, 1980).
Mary Cover Jones and Harold Jones, two professors at the University of California, reasoned that if fears can be conditioned by painful experiences, perhaps they could also be counterconditioned using pleasurable experiences. To test their theory they worked on the famous case of (Rathus, 2007).
What we want to achieve is that, when the person faces stimuli that generate unwanted responses, new responses are promoted. Two well-known counterconditioning techniques are aversion conditioning and aversion conditioning (Myers, 2006).
Research has been carried out that used this procedure to find out if it helped , and and, among others.
Counterconditioning is a procedure based on (Myers, 2006).
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Baron, R., Byrne, D. & Kantowitz, B. (1980), Psychology. Understanding behavior 2nd edition. Holt, Rinehart and Winston: U.S.
Myers, D. (2006) Psychology 7th edition. Panamericana Medical Publishing House
Rathus, S. (2007), Psychology. Principles in practice. Holt, Rinehart and Winston: U.S.