behavior modification

Questions about behavior modification

What does behavior modification mean?

behavior modification means "psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior".

What is another word for behavior modification?

Close synonyms include behavior therapy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is behavior modification a common word?

behavior modification is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.