Sanchez is a five-year-old with a conditioned fear of furry and hairy creatures. He is fond of chocolate cookies and associates pleasant feelings with them. Sanchez's psychologists pairs a cat with Sanchez's cookie snack until his fear of the cat subsides. This is an example of:
A. counterconditioning.
B. stimulus discrimination.
C. instinctive drift.
D. spontaneous recovery.
counterconditioning
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