{"id":7887,"date":"2019-05-22T16:01:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/escape_learning\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:01:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:01:43","slug":"escape_learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/escape_learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning to make a response in order to escape from an aversive event. &nbsp;Closely related to avoidance learning. &nbsp;Both types of learning occur as a consequence of negative reinforcement. &nbsp;An example of escape learning is giving in to the demands of a figure of authority in order to escape from conditioned distress. &nbsp;Learning to avoid such a person as a means of reducing the threat of anxiety-inducing encounters constitutes an example of avoidance learning. &nbsp;Escape learning can be converted into avoidance learning through the provision of a warning signal prior to an aversive stimulus. &nbsp;Both types of learning find their origins in the two-factor theory of avoidance learning proposed by <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/learningtheorybe00mowr\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/learningtheorybe00mowr&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Orval Hobart Mowrer<\/a> (1907-1982).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"avoidance_learning\">Avoidance learning<\/a>, <a href=\"classical_conditioning\">Classical conditioning<\/a>, <a href=\"learned_helplessness\">Learned helplessness<\/a>, <a href=\"learning\">Learning<\/a>, <a href=\"reinforcer\">Reinforcer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning to make a response in order to escape from an aversive event. &nbsp;Closely related to avoidance learning. &nbsp;Both types of learning occur as a consequence of negative reinforcement. &nbsp;An example of escape learning is giving in to the demands of a figure of authority in order to escape from conditioned distress. &nbsp;Learning to avoid &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/escape_learning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Escape learning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}