Bob's therapist designs a program to help him quit drinking.Specifically,he induces nausea each time Bob drinks an alcoholic beverage.Bob's therapist is using a behavioral technique known as ____.

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Aversion conditioning is a form of behavior therapy that associates an undesirable behavior with an unpleasant stimulus, such as inducing nausea when one drinks alcohol, with the goal of decreasing or eliminating the behavior. The other options (modeling, extinction, and flooding) do not involve the use of an aversive stimulus to reduce or eliminate the behavior.

Bob's Therapist Designs a Program to Help Him Quit Drinking