Glossary A

Glossary A

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

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

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.

Avoidance-avoidance conflict refers to a conflict that arises when a choice must be made.

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

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

- Avoidant (minimizing) coping style : Avoidant (minimizing) coping style refers to the tendency to cope with threatening events by withdrawing, minimizing, or avoiding them; believed to be an effective short-term, though not an effective long-term, response to stress.

Avoidant attachment refers to a pattern of attachment in which an infant avoids contact with the parent and shows no preference for the parent over other people.