Editing Classical conditioning (section)

===Behavioral therapies===
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Some therapies associated with classical conditioning are [[aversion therapy]], [[systematic desensitization]] and [[flooding (psychology)|flooding]].

Aversion therapy is a type of behavior therapy designed to make patients cease an undesirable habit by associating the habit with a strong unpleasant unconditioned stimulus.<ref name="Kearney_2011" />{{rp|336}} For example, a medication might be used to associate the taste of alcohol with stomach upset. Systematic desensitization is a treatment for phobias in which the patient is trained to relax while being exposed to progressively more anxiety-provoking stimuli (e.g. angry words). This is an example of [[counterconditioning]], intended to associate the feared stimuli with a response (relaxation) that is incompatible with anxiety.<ref name="Kearney_2011">{{cite book |vauthors=Kearney CA |title=Abnormal Psychology and Life: A Dimensional Approach |date=January 2011}}</ref>{{rp|136}} Flooding is a form of [[Desensitization (psychology)|desensitization]] that attempts to eliminate phobias and anxieties by repeated exposure to highly distressing stimuli until the lack of reinforcement of the anxiety response causes its extinction.<ref name="Kearney_2011" />{{rp|133}} "Flooding" usually involves actual exposure to the stimuli, whereas the term "implosion" refers to imagined exposure, but the two terms are sometimes used synonymously.

Conditioning therapies usually take less time than [[humanistic psychology|humanistic]] therapies.<ref>{{cite web |last=McGee |first=Donald Loring |name-list-style=vanc |title=Behavior Modification |publisher=Wellness.com, Inc. |date=2006 |access-date=14 February 2012 |url=http://www.wellness.com/reference/health-and-wellness/behavior-modification |archive-date=24 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324194345/http://www.wellness.com/reference/health-and-wellness/behavior-modification |url-status=live }}</ref>