"Avoidance responses" refer to the behaviors or actions that we use to keep away from or prevent encountering something we find undesirable, uncomfortable, or threatening.
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The study, «Hunger mediates apex predator's risk
avoidance response in wildland - urban interface,» was recently published online in the Journal of Animal Ecology.
A psychologist like Coss might have informed administrators that chimpanzees will avoid looking at a toy with prominent eyes, gorillas feel threatened by the blank stare of binoculars, and «one of the most
primitive avoidance responses to form exhibited by man today is gaze aversion to the unyielding stare of a stranger.»
Likewise, when plants are subject to conditions where they must grow fast, such as competing for light when neighbors encroach — called the
shade avoidance response — their defenses become compromised.
Similarly, rats with hypothyroidism exhibited abnormal behaviors, such as higher levels of locomotion behavior and a lower rate of
correct avoidance responses, an indication of ADHD.
What makes this difficult is that the pain -
avoidance response in our partner may quickly size up what we say as a danger signal.
Avoidance responses to specific foods and textures (gag response, vomiting, blocking spoon with hands or closed lips, verbal protests, pushing food away, and other avoidance responses)
Searching for clues to complex human social behaviors, the team developed a procedure in which laboratory rats — much like humans — prefer to approach distressed juveniles but avoid distressed adults — responses known as social affective behaviors, according to the article titled «Insular cortex mediates approach and
avoidance responses to others in distress.»
«Brain's insular cortex mediates approach and
avoidance responses to others in distress: Changes in insular cortex excitability, caused by the hormone oxytocin, inform social affective behaviors.»
It is a fact that a dog is most likely to develop
an avoidance response if subjected to physical or psychological trauma during these four weeks.