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Operant Avoidance Conditioning

Operant Avoidance Conditioning is a learning process within the class of operant conditioning procedures in which an organism acquires and maintains a specific behavior through the contingent avoidance of an aversive stimulus, distinguished by the use of reinforcement in the form of negative punishment to increase the likelihood of escape or avoidance responses.

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Behavior Theory and Conditioning

M. E. Bitterman, Kenneth W. Spence · The American Journal of Psychology · 1957 · 1.5K citations

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Conditioning and Associative Learning

Winfred F. Hill, N. J. Mackintosh · The American Journal of Psychology · 1984 · 1.3K citations

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Generality of learned helplessness in man.

Donald Hiroto, Martin E. P. Seligman · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1975 · 887 citations

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Avoidance Conditioning with Brief Shock and No Exteroceptive Warning Signal

Murray Sidman · Science · 1953 · 663 citations

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Passive avoidance learning in psychopathic and nonpsychopathic offenders.

Joseph P. Newman, David S. Kosson · Journal of Abnormal Psychology · 1986 · 628 citations

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    Kent State University, United States

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