Pain-pleasure principle

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Description of Pain-pleasure principle

Pain-pleasure principle: a psychoanalytic concept that, in human psychic functioning, the person tends to seek pleasure and avoid pain; a term borrowed by experimental psychology to denote the same tendency of an animal in a learning situation. SYN: pleasure principle.
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