Crossword clues for aversive
The Collaborative International Dictionary
aversive \aversive\ adj.
of or pertaining to aversion.
exhibiting avoidance or causing avoidance. aversive conditioning aversive behavior
Wiktionary
a. Tending to repel, causing avoidance (of a situation, a behaviour, an item, etc), n. 1 (context grammar uncountable English) A grammatical case indicating that something is avoided or feared; the evitative case. 2 (context psychology countable English) An unpleasant stimulus intended to induce a change in behaviour.
WordNet
adj. tending to repel or dissuade; "aversive conditioning"
Usage examples of "aversive".
Simply to say that an animal is pairing the neutral act of pecking at something which is both green and round, unaccompanied by any such rewarding or aversive experience, is to say nothing other than that the animal, in remembering the bead, can recall various aspects of it, including colour and shape.
Benowitz, L and Magnus, J G Memory storage processes following one-trial aversive conditioning in the chick.
Likewise, a fairly successful aversive conditioning method is ".
Bourne, R C, Davies, D C, Stewart, M G, and Cooper, W Cerebral glycoprotein synthesis and long term memory formation in the chick following passive avoidance training depends on the nature of the aversive stimulus.
The only possible explanation could be that the chicks, when they pecked a novel bead for the first time, formed some sort of a 'representation' of the green bead, a model, in their brains, which they could preserve for at least half an hour without it being paired with anything obviously either aversive or pleasant, but simply neutral.