The phrase "avoid tasks" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to intentionally not do or try to do certain tasks. Example: In order to procrastinate, John often avoids tasks by scrolling through social media instead of completing his assignments.
Students must use replacement behaviors until they develop the requisite skills so they no longer wish to avoid tasks or seek negative attention.
As such, participants may have an incentive to avoid tasks that would be scored as 'social' time.
Furthermore, individuals susceptible to nicotine poisoning could avoid tasks with higher exposure or leave tobacco work entirely (healthy worker effect), and some workers may develop tolerance to nicotine [Arcury et al., 2001a].
Parents sought to avoid tasks in which the child experienced repeated failure, even taking the risk that by withholding their child from team sports, opportunities for peer connections might become more limited.
Fear of infection was often reported during the interviews, and some staff answered that they either do not conduct tasks very well, are very cautious to avoid injuries or even avoid tasks involving touching patients known to be HIV-positive or to have AIDS.
Avoid tasks that can disturb mildew spores from a settled surface and become airborne.
We used multi-channel near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure brain cortical activity in a task-switching paradigm designed to avoid task differences, order predictability, and frequency effects.
While you are doing those things, give each your undivided attention and avoid task switching when possible.
To avoid task-related confounds, we used a passive listening paradigm with an occasional one-back memory task.
A naturalistic implicit comprehension paradigm was used to avoid task difficulty confounds associated with performance of explicit verbal tasks by aphasic subjects (Price et al., 2006).
We procrastinate, avoiding tasks that need to be accomplished, for many reasons.
