The pelvic limb muscles of emus contribute a similar proportion of the total body mass as do the flight muscles of flying birds. When walking, the emu takes strides of about 100 cm (3.3 ft), but at full gallop, a stride can be as long as 275 cm (9 ft).
Definition. Aversion therapy is a form of behavior therapy in which an aversive (causing a strong feeling of dislike or disgust) stimulus is paired with an undesirable behavior in order to reduce or eliminate that behavior.
A classical conditioning procedure for changing the relationship between a conditioned stimulus and its conditioned response. aversive conditioning : A form of treatment that consists of repeated pairings of a stimulus with a very unpleasant stimulus. habituation : Decreased responsiveness to a stimulus after repeated presentations. operant conditioning Also called instrumental conditioning, a form of associative learning in which the consequences of a behavior change the probability of the behavior's occurrence.