Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun counter_conditioning

1 sense of counter conditioning

Sense 1
counter conditioning -- (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")
       => conditioning -- (a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment)