avoidance response

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• Avoidance response — An avoidance response is a form of escape behavior present in animals in which the subject evades an aversive event. This can be due to anxiety or a frightening situation.Avoidance responses are also used in animal training and are the commonly… …   Wikipedia

• avoidance response — the actions of a fish to avoid concentrations of chemicals or other factors. Active or passive movement occurs …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• conditioned avoidance response — noun a conditioned response that anticipates the occurrence of an aversive stimulus • Syn: ↑conditioned avoidance • Hypernyms: ↑conditional reflex, ↑conditioned reflex, ↑acquired reflex, ↑conditional reaction, ↑conditi …   Useful english dictionary

• Avoidance speech — Avoidance speech, or mother in law languages , is a feature of many Australian Aboriginal languages and some North American languages and Bantu languages (called ukuhlonipha, to respect , in Zulu, for example) of Africa whereby in the presence of …   Wikipedia

• avoidance behaviour — Type of activity, exhibited by animals exposed to adverse stimuli, in which the tendency to flee or to act defensively is stronger than the tendency to attack. Vision is the sense that most often produces avoidance behaviour (e.g., small birds… …   Universalium

• avoidance — avoid·ance ə vȯid ən(t)s n, often attrib the act or practice of keeping away from or withdrawing from something undesirable <reinforced by escape or avoidance of electric shock (E. S. Katkin & E. N. Murray)> <avoidance learning> esp… …   Medical dictionary

• conditional response — noun an acquired response that is under the control of (conditional on the occurrence of) a stimulus • Syn: ↑conditional reflex, ↑conditioned reflex, ↑acquired reflex, ↑conditional reaction, ↑conditioned reaction, ↑conditioned response •… …   Useful english dictionary

• conditioned response — noun an acquired response that is under the control of (conditional on the occurrence of) a stimulus (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑conditional reflex, ↑conditioned reflex, ↑acquired reflex, ↑conditional reaction, ↑conditioned reaction, ↑conditional response …   Useful english dictionary

• conditioned avoidance — noun a conditioned response that anticipates the occurrence of an aversive stimulus • Syn: ↑conditioned avoidance response • Hypernyms: ↑conditional reflex, ↑conditioned reflex, ↑acquired reflex, ↑conditional reaction, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Shade avoidance — is a set of responses that plants display when they are subjected to the shade of another plant. It often includes elongation, altered flowering time, increased apical dominance and altered partitioning of resources. This set of responses is… …   Wikipedia

• Escape response — Escape response, escape reaction, or escape behaviour is a possible reaction in response to stimuli indicative of danger, in particular, it initiates an escape motion of an animal. In the cases of reflectory reactions, the escape response may… …   Wikipedia