Learning that smoking is associated with an unpleasant experience by snapping a rubber band on your wrist every time you get the urge to smoke would be an example of ____
a. ?aversion therapy
b. ?systematic desensitization
c. ?displacement
d. ?resistance
ANSWER:
a
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