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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The use of basic learning techniques, such as conditioning, biofeedback, reinforcement, or aversion therapy, to alter human behavior.
  2. n. See behavior therapy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior

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  • “Structured Internet programs directed toward behavior modification have been shown to result in weight loss of greater than five pounds more than information-only websites.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Flex Diet

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  1. psychotherapy

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  1. flooding
  2. desensitization procedure
  1. desensitisation technique
  2. reciprocal-inhibition therapy
  1. desensitization technique
  2. aversion therapy
  1. assertiveness training
  2. desensitisation procedure
  1. systematic desensitisation
  2. implosion therapy
  1. reciprocal inhibition
  2. token economy
  1. systematic desensitization

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  1. aversion therapy
  1. operant conditioning
  1. behavior therapy
  1. conditioning
  1. aversive
  1. sex therapy
  1. classical conditioning
  1. memory

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