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Approach-avoidance conflict
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Approach-Avoidance conflicts are choices between something positve, say going out to a party, that has a negative effect (avoidance), say getting grounded or caught by your wife for being at the party. It contrasts with an approach-approach conflict, like going to a game with your buddies (approach) or going out with your girl (well you know). All these decisions cause stress, to one degree or another.
Approach-avoidance conflict refers to the tension experienced by people when they are simultaneously attracted to and repulsed by the same goal.
Approach-avoidance occurs when an individual moves closer (physically or psychologically) to a seemingly desirable object, only to have the potentially negative consequences of contacting that object push back against the closing behavior.
Appears in the 2006 AP Psychology Test
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Conflict Avoidance-A set of techniques for resolving a conflict. These methods can include: withdrawal, indifference, isolation, and smoothing over.