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RECIPROCAL INHIBITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reciprocal inhibition mean? 

RECIPROCAL INHIBITION (noun)
  The noun RECIPROCAL INHIBITION has 1 sense:

1. a method of behavior therapy based on the inhibition of one response by the occurrence of another response that is mutually incompatible with it; a relaxation response might be conditioned to a stimulus that previously evoked anxietyplay

  Familiarity information: RECIPROCAL INHIBITION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RECIPROCAL INHIBITION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A method of behavior therapy based on the inhibition of one response by the occurrence of another response that is mutually incompatible with it; a relaxation response might be conditioned to a stimulus that previously evoked anxiety

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

reciprocal-inhibition therapy; reciprocal inhibition

Hypernyms ("reciprocal inhibition" is a kind of...):

behavior modification; behavior therapy (psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior)


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