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Response that prevents an aversive stimulus
An avoidance response is a response that prevents an aversive stimulus from occurring. It is a kind of negative reinforcement. An avoidance response is a behavior based on the concept that animals will avoid performing behaviors that result in an aversive outcome. This can involve learning through operant conditioning when it is used as a training technique. It is a reaction to undesirable sensations or feedback that leads to avoiding the behavior that is followed by this unpleasant or fear-inducing stimulus. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Avoidance responseA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: An exploratory study of drivers’ EEG response during emergent collision avoidanceInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Aversion, avoidance, and anxietyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The retention of an incompletely learned avoidance response.Cited 203 times
- Go sideways: Conditioned place preferenceA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Conditioned taste aversionA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The retention of an incompletely learned avoidance response.
Extinction of avoidance responding through response prevention (flooding).
Rapid Extinction of an Avoidance Response following a Period of Response Prevention in the Avoidance Apparatus
Dynamics of the Shade-Avoidance Response in Arabidopsis
Extinction of an avoidance response following response prevention: Some parametric investigations.
Neural correlates of the jamming avoidance response ofEigenmannia
Control of avoidance by a response-produced stimulus
Lever biting as an avoidance response
🆕 Influential since 2022
An exploratory study of drivers’ EEG response during emergent collision avoidance
Karrikin signaling regulates hypocotyl shade avoidance response by modulating auxin homeostasis in Arabidopsis
Selective avoidance as a cognitive response: examining the political use of social media and surveillance anxiety in avoidance behaviours
Beetle iridescence induces an avoidance response in naïve avian predators
The curvature effect: Approach-avoidance tendencies in response to interior design stimuli
📚 Books worth reading
Aversion, avoidance, and anxietyTrevor Archer, Lars-Goran Nilsson · 1989
Learning mechanisms in food selectionLewis M. Barker, Michael P. Domjan · 1977- 📕Effects of blocking of the avoidance response of the elimination of the conditioned fear responseTerry Allan Benline · 1967
- 📕Molecular neurochemistry of the brain during conditioned avoidance behaviorJohn Gaito · 1966
- 📕Associative and non-associative processes in taste-aversion learningTrevor Archer · 1979
Food aversion learningLester Krames, Thomas Alloway · 1977- 📕Reactions to novel environmentsBadrul Anam Khan · 1971
Aversive conditioning and learningA. H. Black · 1971
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