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Avoidance contingency

- Avoidance contingency : Avoidance contingency refers to the situation in which the organism can avoid an aversive stimulus by engaging in appropriate activity.

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Avoidance coping strategies

Avoidance coping strategies refer to coping strategies designed to distract people from thinking about the source of anxiety.

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Avoidance goals

- Avoidance goals : Avoidance goals refers to the goals framed in terms of avoiding unpleasant experiences, such as trying not to look foolish in public.

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Avoidance learning

Avoidance learning refers to the avoidance of events or conditions associated with dreaded or aversive outcomes.

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Avoidance responses

- Avoidance responses : Avoidance responses refer to responses that allow an organism to avoid contact with an aversive stimulus.

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Avoidance theory of punishment

Avoidance theory of punishment refers to punishment involving a type of avoidance conditioning in which the avoidance response consists of any behavior other than the behavior being punished.

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Avoidance-avoidance conflict

Avoidance-avoidance conflict refers to a conflict arising from having to choose between equally undesirable alternatives.

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Avoidance-oriented coping strategy

Avoidance-oriented coping strategy ((Endler & Parker, 1988) refers to one of the three (3) major (stress) coping strategies that reduces Stress by retreating into a different activity

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