AVERSIVE CONDITIONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aversive conditioning mean? 

• AVERSIVE CONDITIONING (noun)
  The noun AVERSIVE CONDITIONING has 1 sense:

1. conditioning to avoid an aversive stimulus

  Familiarity information: AVERSIVE CONDITIONING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVERSIVE CONDITIONING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conditioning to avoid an aversive stimulus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("aversive conditioning" is a kind of...):

conditioning (a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment)