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Law of effect   /lɔ əv ɪfˈɛkt/   Listen
Law of effect

noun
1.
(psychology) the principle that behaviors are selected by their consequences; behavior having good consequences tends to be repeated whereas behavior that leads to bad consequences is not repeated.





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"Law of effect" Quotes from Famous Books



... now to consider figures of speech, we may equally discern the same general law of effect. Underlying all the rules given for the choice and right use of them, we shall find the same fundamental requirement—economy of attention. It is indeed chiefly because they so well subserve this requirement, that figures of speech are employed. To bring the mind more easily ...
— The Philosophy of Style • Herbert Spencer


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