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Friday, December 3, 2010

PRINCIPLES OF ASSOCIATION FORMATION


Classical conditioning and instrumental learning both depend on the formation of associations. An association will be formed between a pair of events (two stimuli, or a response and a stimulus) that occur together (in contiguity). This principle of contiguity is clearly important, but it has some limitations. [principle of contiguity the proposal that events must be experienced close together in time and space for an association to be formed between them].

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