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Avoidance behaviour

A case of negative reinforcement in which the behaviour increases in rate when it postpones or avoids completely an aversive stimulus. (Avoidance does not remove that aversive stimulus, because it has not yet occurred.) Nontechnically. Staying away from or doing something to keep from getting punished.

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