a technique used to help people change the way they react to certain triggers in the environment that cause a negative reaction. in cancer treatment, behavior modification may be used to help patients who have become nauseous during previous cancer treatments cope with nausea they feel when they enter the therapy room to begin a new round of treatment.
出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/02/17 01:09 UTC 版)
Behavior modification is the use of empirically demonstrated behavior change techniques to improve behavior, such as altering an individual's behaviors and reactions to stimuli through positive and negative reinforcement of adaptive behavior and/or the reduction of maladaptive behavior through its extinction, punishment and/or therapy.