association
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connection between ideas or mental states due to similarity or proximity in psychology
Research
7,170,092 papers- Schemas and memory consolidation.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2007
- Driving and regulating temporal association learning coordinated by entorhinal-hippocampal network.Neuroscience research · 2017
- Association of CSF Biomarkers With Hippocampal-Dependent Memory in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease.Neurology · 2021
- Reminders Through Association.Psychological science · 2016
- Reactivation of learned reward association reduces retroactive interference from new reward learning.Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition · 2022
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Association in psychology refers to a mental connection between concepts, events, or mental states that usually stems from specific experiences. Associations are seen throughout several schools of thought in psychology, including behaviorism, associationism, psychoanalysis, social psychology, and structuralism. The idea stems from Plato and Aristotle, especially about the succession of memories, and it was carried on by philosophers such as John Locke, David Hume, David Hartley, and James Mill. It finds its place in modern psychology in such areas as memory, learning, and the study of neural pathways.
Learned associations