PSY 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Empiricism, Edward B. Titchener, Observational Learning
3 Mar 2016
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Laws of association: ideas come to be connected with each other through certain laws. Law of similarity: events that are similar to each other are readily associated to each other (e. g. cars and trucks similar in terms of function and appearance, so easier to associate) Law of contrast: also easy to associate things that are opposite of each other (e. g. high/low, black/white) Law of contiguity: events that occur in close proximity, in time or space, are readily associated (e. g. lightning and thunder occur closely in time one is predictive of the other) Law of frequency: more frequently the two items occur together, the more strongly they are associated (e. g. lightning and thunder occur together so they are strongly associated) Believed that we come into this world with all the knowledge that we will ever need o: when we age, we look inwards, and bring that knowledge out o.
