Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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behavior therapy | Yes | No | No | No |
reciprocal-inhibition therapy | Yes | No | No | No |
behavior therapy (noun) | reciprocal-inhibition therapy (noun) |
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psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior | a method of behavior therapy based on the inhibition of one response by the occurrence of another response that is mutually incompatible with it; a relaxation response might be conditioned to a stimulus that previously evoked anxiety |