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- Avoidance learning is a learning process in which a person or animal learns to avoid a negative stimulus. For example, cows may learn that an electric fence will cause a shock so, to avoid being shocked, they will walk the long way around the fence to get to their food. By engaging in an adaptive behavior, these cows avoid the aversive stimulus.
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Jun 11, 2013 · The literature points to two major “avoidance” systems, one related to pure avoidance and escape of aversive stimuli, and a second, to behavioural inhibition induced by the detection of goal conflict (in addition, there is evidence for nonaffective behavioural constraint).
- Philip J. Corr
- 2013
Jul 21, 2015 · In light of the recent renewal of interest in avoidance in behavioral and brain research and in clinical science, we have provided a review of the most prominent historical and modern avoidance learning theories and relevant empirical findings.
- Angelos-Miltiadis Krypotos, Marieke Effting, Merel Kindt, Tom Beckers
- 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00189
- 2015
- Front Behav Neurosci. 2015; 9: 189.
Approach–avoidance theories aim to describe the major sys-tems that motivate behaviours in reaction to classes of appeti-tive (rewarding) and aversive (punishing) stimuli, and to explain consistent patterns of individual differences in these behaviours. Current theories trace their origins to early researchers, espe-
For example, avoidance serves as a defining feature of agoraphobia, specific phobias, and social anxiety disorder, but not all anxiety disorders (as is the case in panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder).
In light of the recent renewal of interest in avoidance in behavioral and brain 824 research and in clinical science, we have provided a review of the most prominent historical and 825 modern avoidance learning theories and relevant empirical findings.
- Angelos-Miltiadis Krypotos, Marieke Effting
Oct 18, 2016 · In our approach, defensive reactions (freezing), actions (avoidance) and habits (habitual avoidance) are viewed as being controlled by unique circuits that operate nonconsciously in the control...
- Joseph Ledoux, J. Moscarello, R. Sears, V. Campese
- 2017
Sep 22, 2006 · The idea that behavior reduces to approach and avoidance tendencies is by no means new. It is implicit in the two facets of the Freudian superego—the ego ideal as behaviors to which the person aspires and the conscience as behaviors that are forbidden.
