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law of effect

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noun

  1. psychol another name for Thorndike's law See Thorndike

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The law of effect must work as well as the law of exercise, if the results are to be satisfactory.

From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton

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

From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton

This species of composition which the law of effect points out as the perfect one, is the one which high genius tends naturally to produce.

From The Philosophy of Style by Spencer, Herbert

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

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.

Recency, then, does not explain the law of effect.

From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Woodworth, Robert S.