Question

Jill enrolled in a stop-smoking program at a local hospital. At the end of each of the daily sessions, participants in the program were required to rapidly puff one cigarette after another for five minutes. Although the participants were unaware of it, the filter tips of the cigarettes had been coated with a foul-tasting substance that induced mild nausea. This part of the stop-smoking program involved _____, which is based on the principles of _____.

Answer 1

Answer:aversion conditioning; classical conditioning

Explanation:

Principle of classical conditioning refers to a learning procedure of mixing biological stimulus with previous neutral stimulus in this case cigarettes which is a previous stimulus is mixed with foul tasting substance (biological stimulus) to introduce a bad taste to smokers .

Aversion conditioning or therapy, psychotherapy is used to eliminate an or eradicate an unwanted behaviour by exposing a person to undesirable tastes .

The introduction of the taste that will cause nausea through smoking cigarettes is aimed at making smokers hates cigarettes due to that secretly introduced taste to cigarettes.

Types of stimulus that can be used in this therapy are electrical, chemical, or imagined aversive situations.