association by contiguity

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• Association of Ideas — Association of Ideas, or Mental association, is a term used principally in the history of philosophy and of psychology to refer to explanations about the conditions under which representations arise in consciousness, and also for a principle put… …   Wikipedia

• Contiguity — A contiguity is a continuous mass, or a series of things in contact or proximity. In a different meaning, contiguity is the state of being contiguous.[1] The concept was first set out in the Law of Contiguity, one of Aristotle s Laws of… …   Wikipedia

• association — Synonyms and related words: Anschluss, British Cabinet, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, accompaniment, accord, accordance, addition, adjunct, advisory body, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Association of Ideas — • A principle in psychology to account for the succession of mental states Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Association of Ideas     Association of Ideas      …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Contiguity — Con ti*gu i*ty, n. [Cf. F. contiguit[ e], LL. contiguitas.] The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity. [1913 Webster] The convicinity and contiguity of the two parishes. T. Warton. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• association of ideas — Mental linkage that facilitates recollection, eg by similarity, contiguity or repetition • • • Main Entry: ↑associate * * * association of ideas, Psychology. the tendency of a sensation, perception, feeling, volition, or thought to recall to… …   Useful english dictionary

• Contiguity (probability theory) — In probability theory, two sequences of probability measures are said to be contiguous if asymptotically they share the same support. Thus the notion of contiguity extends the concept of absolute continuity to the sequences of measures. The… …   Wikipedia

• association — associational, adj. /euh soh see ay sheuhn, shee /, n. 1. an organization of people with a common purpose and having a formal structure. 2. the act of associating or state of being associated. 3. friendship; companionship: Their close association …   Universalium

• contiguity, theory of — ▪ psychology       psychological theory of learning which emphasizes that the only condition necessary for the association of stimuli and responses is that there be a close temporal relationship between them. It holds that learning will occur… …   Universalium

• association of ideas — The pattern in which different items in consciousness occur together or in succession. Laws of such association would play the same role in the study of conscious processes as laws of nature do in the study of natural phenomena. The first attempt …   Philosophy dictionary

• contiguity — Synonyms and related words: abutment, abuttal, accord, addition, adjacency, adjoiningness, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alliance, apposition, approximation, appulse, assemblage, association, bond, closeness, combination, conjugation,… …   Moby Thesaurus