And so what you want to do, basically drawing upon the law of effect, is reinforce the pig for doing good things.

你所要做的就是，应用效果律，强化这头猪做出的令你满意的行为。

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So this could be summarized as the law of effect, which is a tendency to perform an action's increased if rewarded, weakened if it's not.

这种行为上的变化被称之为效果律，也就是说，行为倾向随奖励而增加，随惩罚而减少。

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More generally, Chomsky suggests that the law of effect when applied to humans is either trivially true, trivially or uninterestingly true, or scientifically robust and obviously false.

更一般的来讲，乔姆斯基认为应用在人类身上的效果律,要么是无效且毫无意义的正确假说，要么就是稳定且明显的错误假说。

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