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Aversive definition

ə-vûrsĭv, -zĭv
(psychol.) Designating or having to do with conditioning, therapy, etc. intended to produce an aversion to a certain kind of undesirable behavior.
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Causing avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior by using an unpleasant or punishing stimulus, as in techniques of behavior modification.
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Characterized by aversion.
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Causing avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior by using an unpleasant or punishing stimulus, as in techniques of behavior modification.
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Tending to repel, causing avoidance (of a situation, a behaviour, an item, etc),
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(grammar, uncountable) A grammatical case indicating that something is avoided or feared; the evitative case.
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(psychology, countable) An unpleasant stimulus intended to induce a change in behaviour.
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Noun

Singular:
aversive
Plural:
aversives

Aversive Sentence Examples

  • Animal and human studies implicate the amygdala in conditioning to aversive stimuli and orbitofrontal cortex in reversal learning.

  • Many corrections officers adopt an aversive attitude while guarding prisoners at work.

  • We are attempting to identify which areas of the brain are greatly affected by aversive stimuli.

  • As such, they would not have the same aversive reaction that they normally would if they were to witness an atrociously violent act in real life.

  • Coercive behavior-Maladaptive behaviors engaged in as a means of avoiding or escaping aversive events.

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