counter conditioning

1. 1.

   conditioning in which a second incompatible response is conditioned to an already conditioned stimulus

   “counter conditioning lies behind many of the procedures used in behavior therapy”

   Broaderconditioning

Questions about counter conditioning

What does counter conditioning mean?

counter conditioning means "conditioning in which a second incompatible response is conditioned to an already conditioned stimulus".

Is counter conditioning a common word?

counter conditioning 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.