Concept information
Preferred term
law of exercise
Definition
- A scientific law of learning according to which "Any response to a situation will, other things being equal, be more strongly connected with the situation in proportion to the number of times it has been connected with that situation and to the average vigor and duration of the connections." (Thorndike, 1911, p. 244).
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Bibliographic citation(s)
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• Thorndike, E.L. (1911). Animal Intelligence. MacMillan.
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
Creator
- Frank Arnould
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-XMWPSL1H-J
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