The phrase "avoidance orientation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to psychology, education, or behavior, particularly when discussing strategies or tendencies to avoid certain situations or challenges.
Example: "In her research, she found that students with a strong avoidance orientation often struggled to engage with difficult material."
Alternatives: "avoidance strategy" or "avoidance mindset".
The second assessed students' motivational traits and orientations: Learning orientation, Outcome orientation and Avoidance orientation.
Echolocation is a complex phenotypic trait that has evolved independently in bats and whales, and which involves the production, reception and auditory processing of ultrasonic pulses for obstacle avoidance, orientation and hunting11,12.
All park visitors are given a bear-avoidance orientation: Don't cook near your tent.
One with performance-avoidance orientation would make an effort to hide his/her lack of ability (e.g. avoiding participation or asking questions that may result in negative evaluation of his/her knowledge).
Another model, however, added a third component to the previous pattern, i.e., avoidance goal orientation in which the main concern is hiding one's lack of ability relative to others (Elliot & McGregor, 2001).
A recent study among EFL learners also reported the same finding by indicating a positive relationship between student avoidance goal orientation − as opposed to mastery approach − and student demotivation (Allahdadi et al. 2016).
No significant relationships could be found between performance-avoidance goal orientation and surface processing and between surface processing and achievement.
Delirium prevention measures included careful diagnostic and drug review; attention to nutrition, hydration, vision, hearing, and re-orientation; avoidance of urinary catheters and psychotropic drugs when possible; and early mobilisation and provision of activity.
Sahibzada, N., Dean, P. & Redgrave, P. Movements resembling orientation or avoidance elicited by electrical stimulation of the superior colliculus in rats.
A few early behavioural studies have distinguished this freezing behaviour from other SC-guided orientation and avoidance behaviours, and considered it as a more particular defensive response to a potential threat24,40.
For instance, we found that banks with stronger performance after this shock had CEOs whose parents and grandparents came from Germany, Italy, Poland and Russia — countries that rate highly on the cultural dimensions of restraint, long-term orientation, uncertainty avoidance, and harmony.
