law of effect

noun

psychol another name for Thorndike's law See Thorndike

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Circumstances develop greatly the characters of men, and they sometimes rise to true greatness, or sink into baseness, according to the law of effect, of contact, and example.

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Can the law of effect be interpreted as an instance of the sub-law of recency?

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These factors that determine growth are each to be studied in detail, and the laws of effect of each to be discovered.

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The second great law of habit formation is the law of effect.

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Turning now to consider figures of speech, we may equally discern the same general law of effect.

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law of dominance law of excluded middle

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