conditioned avoidance

1. 1.

   a conditioned response that anticipates the occurrence of an aversive stimulus

   Synonymsconditioned avoidance response

   Broaderconditional reflex

Questions about conditioned avoidance

What does conditioned avoidance mean?

conditioned avoidance means "a conditioned response that anticipates the occurrence of an aversive stimulus".

What is another word for conditioned avoidance?

Close synonyms include conditioned avoidance response. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is conditioned avoidance a common word?

conditioned avoidance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.