Mental Process
avoidance behavior
a·void·ance be·hav·ior
Definitions related to avoidance behavior:
  • Act of choosing to move away from a potentially negative stimulus or situation.
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  • Behavior that postpones an aversive event thereby escaping from the conditioned aversive stimuli; conditioned aversive stimulus is all the stimuli before the aversive stimulus presented minus the stimuli associated with the avoidance response; a form of escape behavior.
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  • Avoidance behaviour, type of activity, seen in animals exposed to adverse stimuli, in which the tendency to act defensively is stronger than the tendency to attack. The underlying implication that a single neural mechanism is involved (such as a specific part of the brain, which, under electrical...
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