One Reason That Aversive Conditioning May Only Be Temporarily Effective

question 211

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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