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In treating alcoholism, one can condition the response of nausea and queasiness of the stomach to the sight, smell and taste of alcohol. This technique, designed to replace a positive emotional response to a certain stimuli with a negative one, is called____.

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aversive counterconditioning

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Aversive counterconditioning is a technique used as a therapy usually to break addictions in people. Aversive counterconditioning involves changing how we respond to a stimulus by using an unpleasant stimulus to reduce the likelihood or frequency of an undesirable behavior of being exhibited.

For example, as seen in the question given above, aversive counterconditioning is used to reduce the behavior of alcoholism, as positive emotional response to alcohol, which makes it pleasurable, is replaced with a negative one such as the response of nausea and queasiness of the stomach to the sight, smell and taste of alcohol. This would discourage the individual from taking alcohol, or reduce the tendency to take alcohol.

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