Things that happen to us in our environment affect the way we behave. If you really want to watch the T.V. program, you will make sure that you complete your homework before the program comes on. This is an example of the environmental contingency controlling your behavior. Operant procedures are the use of contingencies on personally reinforcing events to make you behave in a particular way. So, this method was used on people suffering from auditory hallucinations to cause them to stop hallucinations.
Systematic desensitization is also a technique used to treat auditory hallucinations.
This usually causes a decreased aversive reaction to the bad condition and all the responses as a result of that. This system is used especially in auditory hallucinations which seem to brought on by stressful situations. Associated periferally with this is also the newly developed satiation treatment whereby a person with hallucinations would record the number of times the hallucination occurred and would consciously pay attention to it. Thought stopping is another procedure which uses an aversive condition to stop the hearing of auditory hallucinations. This therapy entails punishing the patient for hearing those auditory hallucinations.