(Video: Thorndike's Puzzle Box) By learning to repeat responses that facilitate escape from a puzzle box, cats demonstrate what Thorndike called

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Thorndike's law of effect states that behaviors followed by a satisfying consequence are more likely to be repeated, while behaviors followed by an unsatisfying consequence are less likely to be repeated. The cats learn to repeat the response of escaping from the puzzle box because it leads to a satisfying consequence of freedom, demonstrating the law of effect. A is incorrect because spontaneous recovery refers to the reappearance of a learned behavior after extinction has occurred. C is incorrect because classical conditioning involves learning a relationship between two stimuli, not a behavior and its consequence. D is incorrect because latent learning refers to the delayed manifestation of learning that occurs without reinforcement.

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