Conditioned Avoidance (Noun)
Meaning
A conditioned response that anticipates the occurrence of an aversive stimulus.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The lab rat exhibited conditioned avoidance by fleeing its cage whenever it heard the sound of the electric shock generator.
- Conditioned avoidance played a significant role in the development of the phobia, as the individual learned to associate the feared object with the unpleasant experience.
- The experiment demonstrated that conditioned avoidance can be an effective coping mechanism for animals in situations where they have control over their environment.
- The therapist worked to break the patient's conditioned avoidance of social situations by gradually exposing them to the feared stimuli in a controlled setting.
- Through classical conditioning, the child learned to exhibit conditioned avoidance of the doctor's office due to the association with painful injections.