The phenomenon that the caterpillar effect blindly follows the habit and inertia of thinking and reacts to lead to the failure result is called the caterpillar effect. The caterpillar is used to sticking to the original instinct, habit, precedent and experience, unable to break the trailing habit and will not turn to foraging.

Effect refers to the effect produced by physical or chemical action, such as photoelectric effect, thermal effect, chemical effect, etc., which generally refers to the reaction and effect caused by a person's words and deeds or the occurrence and development of something in society.