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What is counterconditioning?

What is counterconditioning? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (psychology) A form of conditioning in which a negative response to a stimulus is replaced by a positive one
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There have been two generally agreed upon routes: extinction and counterconditioning.
Counterconditioning can only occur when an organism has an association between a mental representation and a valence, as acquired in an evaluative conditioning paradigm.
Counterconditioning names a similar process to extinction, though one which proceeds via a slightly different method.
In essence, associative structures are functionally defined as being fungible based on counterconditioning and extinction and nothing else.
Counterconditioning counters the existing valence with the opposite valence.
If he could live through it, countermeasures could be taken, counterconditioning could be set up.

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