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Aversive vs Nonaversive - What's the difference?

aversive | nonaversive |

As adjectives the difference between aversive and nonaversive

is that aversive is tending to repel, causing avoidance (of a situation, a behaviour, an item, etc) while nonaversive is not aversive.

As a noun aversive

is a grammatical case indicating that something is avoided or feared; the evitative case.

aversive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to repel, causing avoidance (of a situation, a behaviour, an item, etc),

    • Noun

  • (grammar, uncountable) A grammatical case indicating that something is avoided or feared; the evitative case.
  • (psychology, countable) An unpleasant stimulus intended to induce a change in behaviour.

    • References

    * Skinner, B. F. (1969) Contingencies of Reinforcement . New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts

    nonaversive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not aversive.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 7, author=Maia Szalavitz, title=Shocks From the System, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=According to the New York Department of Education, the state will be able to educate troubled children by 2009 with nonaversive measures. }}