Question

Edward L. Thorndike argued that responses that lead to satisfying outcomes are more likely to be repeated, and that responses followed by unpleasant outcomes are less likely to be repeated. This became known as the law of
A. Reinforcement
B. Associations
C. Punishment
D. Effect
E. Outcomes

Answer 1

Answer:

effect                  

Explanation:

Law of effect: In psychology, the term law of effect was proposed by Edward Thorndike, and is defined as the phenomenon in which a particular response when chased by a specific satisfying event in the presence of a particular stimuli then the connection between response and stimulus gets stronger and vice-versa. Therefore, the satisfying event association has a greater chance of occurring in the future.

In the question above, the given statement represents the law of effect.