Thorndike: Trial and Error
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Under learning psychology, upon conducting a micro-analytical study of the 'Primary Laws of Learning' proposed by Edward Thorndike — Law of Readiness, Law of Exercise, and Law of Effect — if a teacher immediately praises and rewards a student for giving a correct answer in class, which motivates the student to repeat that response again and again in the future, which law of Thorndike is most active in this situation and what is its main psychological basis?
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According to Thorndike's 'Law of Effect', actions or responses that bring pleasant or satisfying outcomes to an organism are repeated again and again; conversely, actions that bring dissatisfaction or punishment are abandoned. This principle later formed the basis of B.F. Skinner's Operant Conditioning and Reinforcement theory.
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