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Behavioral Inhibition
Behavioral Inhibition refers to a subsystem of the brain that produces anxiety and inhibits ongoing behavior in the presence of novel events, innate fear stimuli, and signals of non-reward or punishment . A behavioral avoidance (or inhibition) system (BIS ) is said to regulate aversive motives, in which the goal is to move away from something unpleasant.
Behavioral Inhibition is also known as BI.
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