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Behavior Modification

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Noun

1. behavior modification, behavior therapy

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Behavior Modification

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Psychology
a technique that seeks to modify animal and human behavior through application of the principles of conditioning, in which rewards and reinforcements, or punishments, are used to establish desired habits, or patterns of behavior
see also conditioned reflex: also called behavioral modification

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Behavior Modification

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n.
1. The application of learning techniques such as conditioning, biofeedback, reinforcement, or aversion therapy in order to change a person's behavior.
2. See behavior therapy.

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