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covert negative reinforcement

in behavior therapy, a technique in which the client first imagines an aversive event and then switches to imagining engaging in a behavior that reverses the adversiveness of the event. For example, a client might imagine that he or she is alone at a restaurant, feeling insecure and unhappy, and then switches the imaginary scene to one in which he or she is asking another person for a date and that person says yes. Compare covert positive reinforcement.

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personal probability

personal probability

see subjective probability.