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Question 12 Dr. Shaw has a patient who has a phobia of spiders and also loves doing puzzles. Dr. Shaw exposes the patient to spiders briefly while having the patient complete a fun puzzle. Dr. Shaw is using ________ to treat his patient’s phobia. second-order conditioning systematic desensitization modeling counterconditioning

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Counterconditioning.

Explanation: Dr. Shaw is pairing the feared stimulus (spiders) with a positive stimulus (fun puzzles) to replace the fear response with a positive one. This is distinct from systematic desensitization (which uses gradual exposure plus relaxation), modeling (observational learning), and second-order conditioning.