The school is one of three high schools in the Columbia Public School District, with admission based primarily on the locations of students' homes. Hickman is one of the largest high schools in Missouri and has been called the largest in terms of athletic and academic competition.
Aversives can vary from being slightly unpleasant or irritating (such as a disliked color) to physically damaging. It is not the level of unpleasantness, but rather the effectiveness the unpleasant event has on changing behavior that defines the aversive.
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.