avoidance behavior
11Approach-avoidance conflict — Approach Avoidance conflicts are choices between something positive, say going out to a party, that has a negative valence (avoidance), say getting grounded for being at the party. These decisions and the emotional state of ambivalence cause… …
12Airborne Collision Avoidance System — (ACAS) is an ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) standard specified in ICAO Annex 10 Vol IV which provides pilots with a system independent of air traffic control to detect the presence of other aircraft which may present a threat of …
13Compulsive behavior — is behavior which a person does compulsively in other words, not because they want to behave that way, but because they feel they have to do so. Mental health professionals have identified signs of compulsive behavior in various disorders such as …
14Murray Sidman — is a pioneering behavioral scientist, best known for Sidman Avoidance,[1][2] also called free operant avoidance , in which an individual learns to avoid an aversive stimulus by remembering to produce the response without any other stimulus.… …
15Vision in toads — The neural basis of prey detection, recognition, and orientation was studied in depth by Jörg Peter Ewert in a series of experiments that made the toad visual system a model system in neuroethology (neural basis of natural behavior). He began by… …
16Cognitive behavioral analysis system of psychotherapy — The Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) is a talking therapy, a synthesis model of interpersonal and cognitive and behavioral therapies developed (and patented) by James P. McCullough Jr [2000, 2006] of Virginia… …
17Social trap — is a term used by psychologists to describe a situation in which a group of people act to obtain short term individual gains, which in the long run leads to a loss for the group as a whole. Examples of social traps include the overharvesting of… …
18Cynophobia — (pronounced /ˌsaɪnəˈfoʊbiə/, US dict: sī′·nə·fō′·bē·ə, from the Greek: κύων kýōn dog and φόβος phóbos fear ) is the abnormal fear of dogs. Cynophobia is classified as a specific phobia, under the subtype animal phobias .[1] According to …
19Defensive medicine — is the practice of diagnostic or therapeutic measures conducted primarily not to ensure the health of the patient, but as a safeguard against possible malpractice liability.[1] Fear of litigation has been cited[2] as the driving force behind… …
20Positivity/negativity ratio — Positivity and negativity are powerful feedback processes in human behavior. Positive feedback encourages us to continue doing what we have done so far. Negative feedback, on the contrary, generally acts as a warning signal that tells us to… …
