Flooding relies on this basic, non-associative learning process as a means of initially reducing the client's anxiety response

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Flooding is based on the principle of habituation, wherein a person becomes desensitized to a feared stimulus through repeated and prolonged exposure to it. This non-associative learning process involves a decrease in the anxiety response without any reinforcement or punishment. Forward conditioning, negative reinforcement, and modeling are not directly involved in the habituation process of flooding.

Flooding Relies on This Basic, Non-Associative Learning Process as a Means