Cats received a fish reward whenever they maneuvered themselves out of an enclosed puzzle box. With successive trials, the cats escaped from the box with increasing speed. This illustrates A) negative reinforcement. B) the law of effect. C) respondent behavior. D) spontaneous recovery.

The law of effects was given by Edward Thorndi-ke. It is a very famous law related to learning and its consequences. The law of effect occurs when responses that result satisfyingly and occur again. But when the response is related to discomfort behavior, the behavior will occur very less.

This law is related to the learning theory that was proposed by Edward Thorndi-ke developed the ope-rant conditioning. This law means that the behavior that is pleasant repeat again and again but the behavior that is not repeated again and again leads to a negative response.