Aversion therapy involves ____
a. ?using operant conditioning to deliver punishment for inappropriate behavior
b. ?pairing an unpleasant stimulus with the behavior that you want to change
c. ?imagining being dead and then comparing that to the freedoms associated with being alive
d. ?vigorously challenging self-defeating thinking patterns
ANSWER:
b
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