association by similarity

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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

• 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

• association coefficients — consist of a number used to indicate the degree to which two variables or attributes are related. Two basic types are covariation measures and dis/similarity measures. Covariation measures (such as the Pearsonian product moment correlation, r)… …   Dictionary of sociology

• similarity — [n] likeness, correspondence affinity, agreement, alikeness, analogy, approximation, association, closeness, coincidence, collation, community, comparability, comparison, concordance, concurrence, conformity, congruence, congruity, connection,… …   New thesaurus

• 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

• Association fallacy — An association fallacy is an inductive formal fallacy of the type hasty generalization or red herring which asserts that qualities of one thing are inherently qualities of another, merely by an irrelevant association. The two types are sometimes… …   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

• similarity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Resemblance Nouns 1. similarity, resemblance, likeness, similitude, semblance; affinity, approximation, parallelism; agreement; analogy; family likeness; alliteration, rhyme, pun. See imitation, nearness …   English dictionary for students

• 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

• similarity — Synonyms and related words: accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alikeness, alliance, analogousness, analogy, approximation, assemblage, association, balance, bond, closeness, coincidence, collation, combination,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• similarity, measures of — See association coefficients …   Dictionary of sociology