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
ANSWER:
c
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