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avoidance conditioning (medicine)


avoidance conditioning


The technique whereby an organism learns to avoid unpleasant or punishing stimuli by learning the appropriate anticipatory response to protect it from further such stimuli.

Compare: escape conditioning.

Synonym: avoidance training.