If a therapist gives henry, who is suffering from alcoholism, a drink laced with a nausea-inducing drug so that he feels like throwing up after drinking the alcohol, it can be concluded that the therapist is implementing the technique of _____.
The therapist is implementing the technique of aversive conditioning. This type of conditioning is characteristic of using a negative stimuli in order to dissuade someone from a negative behavior. Here, the negative or noxious stimuli is the nausea-inducing drug, and the negative behavior to be avoided is drinking alcohol.
