81
Random lnsanity / Re: The Random Wikipedia Articles Topic
« on: August 05, 2011, 02:27:50 am »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Ideas
what a soundful name
what a soundful name
Quote
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 forward by an important historical school of thinkers to account generally for the succession of mental phenomena. One idea was thought to follow another in consciousness if it were associated by some principle. The three most commonly asserted principles of association were similarity, contiguity, and contrast, but numerous others had been added by the nineteenth century. By the end of the nineteenth century physiological psychology was so altering the approach to this subject that much of the older associationist theory was rejected.