When a 3-year-old named Peter was deathly afraid of rabbits,his fear was eliminated through:
A)stimulus discrimination.
B)counterconditioning.
C)stimulus generalization.
D)operant conditioning.

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Counterconditioning is a process in which a conditioned response is replaced with a new, more desirable response. In this case, Peter's fear of rabbits was likely a conditioned response that could be replaced with a more positive reaction through a process of counterconditioning.

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