A person who paints a foul-tasting polish on their fingernails is using ________ therapy to quit nail-biting.

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The person is using aversion therapy, which involves pairing a behavior (nail-biting) with an unpleasant stimulus (the foul-tasting polish) in order to reduce or eliminate the behavior. Counterconditioning involves replacing an unwanted behavior with a desirable one, contingency management involves providing rewards or consequences for certain behaviors, participant modeling involves learning through observing others, and token economy involves using tokens or points to reinforce desired behaviors.

A Person Who Paints a Foul-Tasting Polish on Their Fingernails