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Avoidance learning

An avoidance response is a natural adaptive behavior performed in response to danger. Excessive avoidance has been suggested to contribute to anxiety disorders, leading psychologists and neuroscientists to study how avoidance behaviors are learned using rat or mouse models. Avoidance learning is a type of operant conditioning (also known as instrumental…

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Neural circuits

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Avoidance learning in the laboratory

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related to Pavlovian instrumental transfer · 9
Avoidance learning → After, As, CS, First, In, Pavlovain, Pavlovian, This, US
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