aversive behavior


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aversive behavior

[ə′vərs·iv bi′hāv·yər]
(psychology)
Avoidance behavior.
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In fact, the TRs may relay information to a specific part of the brain that elicits innately aversive behavior in animals.
Gene necessary for mice to avoid cats discovered
In other words, it appears that the children of more depressed mothers displaced their aversive behavior onto another family member.
Rearing the sad or mad: differentiating the family environments of depressed versus conduct disordered youth
In addition, teachers can be negatively reinforced by placing a student in timeout, because once the misbehaving student is removed from the classroom, the aversive behavior is also removed, providing them with a period of calm.
State policies concerning the use of seclusion timeout in schools
Compulsively thinking about an insolvable problem is aversive; stimuli from Jack can acquire a reinforcing function by being correlated with the termination of such aversive behavior.
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This program at the Richmond State School, Richmond, Texas has been highly successful for several years in reducing the practitioner's reliance on such aversive behavior management techniques as physical restraint, sedation or general anesthesia.
The ABCs for successful dental treatment. (Oral healthcare for people with special needs: Part V.)
If parents submit to the aversive behavior from their adolescent it negatively reinforces the adolescent to act in aversive ways in future monitoring interactions.
Understanding parental monitoring through analysis of Monitoring episodes in context
Researchers such as Gelles (1973) have suggested that, child physical abuse, in conjunction with an environment of high aversive behavior and low positive behavior, often occurs in the context of discipline.
Parent-child interaction therapy: a promising intervention for abusive families
For example, initial contact with a partner who has had an affair (or contact with thoughts about the affair) is experienced as totally aversive and elicits some form of aversive behavior (withdrawal, avoidance, or attack).
Behavior analysis of forgiveness in couples therapy
In ICT, one technique for promoting acceptance involves uncovering the "understandable reasons" for a partner's aversive behavior.
Behavior analysis and the scientific study of couples
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