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The document discusses Thorndike's Law of Belongingness which states that for reward or punishment to be effective, it must be relevant to the situation rather than just physically contiguous. It provides an example explaining that the association between the words "Suneet" and "went" in the sentence "Suneet went home" would be stronger and better remembered than the association between "loudly" and "Suneet" in the sentences "Ramesh spoke loudly" and "Suneet went home" due to relevance according to the Law of Belongingness despite both word pairs having the same physical proximity between sentences.

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Thorn Dike

The document discusses Thorndike's Law of Belongingness which states that for reward or punishment to be effective, it must be relevant to the situation rather than just physically contiguous. It provides an example explaining that the association between the words "Suneet" and "went" in the sentence "Suneet went home" would be stronger and better remembered than the association between "loudly" and "Suneet" in the sentences "Ramesh spoke loudly" and "Suneet went home" due to relevance according to the Law of Belongingness despite both word pairs having the same physical proximity between sentences.

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Thorndike s Law of Belongingness states that reward or punishment to be maximally effective must be relevant to the situation.

Mere contiguity between the stimulus and the response would not ensure the effectiveness of the reward. While reading a paragraph, the last word of a sentence, and the first-word of the next sentence share physical proximity, but their association would be poor. For example, consider the following two sentences: 'Ramesh spoke loudly', 'Suneet went home'. The association strength of the pair, 'Suneet- went' is more than that of the pair 'loudly-Suneet', though both pairs have same degree of physical proximity. Hence the first pair would be better remembered than the second pair, according to the Law of Belongingness.

What is A Sense of Belonging?


A Sense of Belonging is the first major report on the role of both culture (as a foundation for human development) and arts (as a means of expression, communication and sharing) in the resettlement process. The report has emerged from a 12-month research project involving 73 projects across the UK A Sense of Belonging is about validating the importance of the cultural lives, cultural expressions and cultural experiences of refugees and asylum seekers as part of the process of their inclusion and integration in British Society.

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