Thorndike's Law of Effect States That Behavior Is ____

question 43

Multiple Choice

Thorndike's law of effect states that behavior is ____.

• A)based on a strong relationship between conditioned and unconditioned stimuli
• B)an adaptation based on imitation
• C)"stamped into" an animal relative to the consequences of the behavior
• D)predetermined by the type of organism

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Definitions:

Appeal to Ignorance

A fallacy that asserts a proposition to be true because it has not been proved false or vice versa.

Atlantis

A mythical island nation mentioned in Plato's works, "Timaeus" and "Critias," as a powerful and advanced civilization that purportedly sank into the ocean in a single day and night of misfortune.

Fallacy

An error in reasoning or argumentation that leads to a conclusion being invalid or deceptive, often due to a flaw in the structure of the argument.

Equivocation

The misleading use of a term with more than one meaning or sense, causing a fallacy in argumentation due to ambiguous language.