Jenna, who is recovering from drug addiction, attends counseling sessions so that she will no longer associate the sight of a needle and syringe with an expected drug effect. During the counseling sessions, Jenna handles a syringe without receiving any drugs as her counselor pairs a new signal with the sight of the syringe: a favorite song of Jenna’s. The method used here illustrates the use of

____.

a. ?extinction
b. ?an inhibitory conditioned stimulus
c. an excitatory unconditioned stimulus
d. ?cognitive mapping


ANSWER:
b

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