Avoidance behavior
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agoraphobia, escape reaction, negative reinforcement
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behavior that postpones an aversive event thereby escaping from the conditioned aversive stimuli; conditioned aversive stimulus is all the stimuli before the aversive stimulus presented minus the stimuli associated with the avoidance response; a form of escape behavior.
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- Redistribution when avoidance behavior is heterogeneous Wojciech Kopczuk () Journal of Public Economics, 2001, vol.
- Operant behavior, therefore, is also called reward-seeking; escape behavior is also called relief-seeking; avoidance behavior is also called no punishment-seeking; and hoarding behavior is also called no deprivation-seeking.
- Avoidance behavior is a crucial distinction between willingness- to-pay (WTP) and cost-of-illness (COI) analyses.
- For example, when the Guidance module's AVOIDANCE behavior is activated, Guidance causes immediate activation of the OAS behavior in its peer, Data Assessment, to watch for obstacles.
- Another common avoidance behavior is failing to plan for the future.
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