One Reason That Aversive Conditioning May Only Be Temporarily Effective

question 20

Multiple Choice

One reason that aversive conditioning may only be temporarily effective is that

• A) for ethical reasons, therapists cannot use sufficiently intense unconditioned stimuli to sustain classical conditioning.
• B) patients are often unable to become sufficiently relaxed for conditioning to take place.
• C) patients know that outside the therapist's office they can engage in the undesirable behavior without fear of aversive consequences.
• D) most conditioned responses are elicited by many nonspecific stimuli and it is impossible to countercondition them all.

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