单词 | association of ideas |
释义 | > as lemmasassociation of ideas a. The mental connection between an object and ideas that have some relation to it (e.g. of similarity, contrariety, contiguity, causation). phr. association of ideas. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of ideas > association of ideas > [noun] suggestion1605 association1700 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [noun] > system of > connection connection1651 association1700 combination1700 connectedness1886 1700 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) ii. xxxiii. 222 That there are such Associations of them [sc. ideas] made by Custom in the Minds of most Men, I think no Body will question. 1700 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) ii. xxxiii. 221 (heading) Of the Association of Ideas. 1759 J. Adams in Wks. (1850) II. 68 The principle in nature is imitation, association of ideas, and contracting habits. 1779 S. Johnson Cowley in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 149 Words being arbitrary must owe their powers to association, and have the influence, and that only, which custom has given them. 1864 A. Bain Senses & Intellect (ed. 2) Introd. ii. 58 The simple act of seizing food implies..the mental association of the appearance of the food with the satisfying of the feeling [of hunger]. 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xiv. 555 Association occurs as amply between impressions of different senses as between homogeneous sensations. 1894 G. T. Ladd Psychol. xiii. 264 The very limited nature of the application of the so-called laws of the association of ideas to the entire mental life. 1905 E. B. Titchener Exper. Psychol. II. i. 192 We show him a word; he is to react when the word has suggested something, no matter what. The word sea may arouse the idea of land or water or ships or some particular sea or some particular incident at sea,—anything it likes. Associations of this sort are termed, technically, free associations. 1938 R. S. Woodworth Exper. Psychol. xv. 340 In free association the laws of association are supposed to have full sway. 1958 H. M. Hayward & M. Harari tr. B. Pasternak Dr. Zhivago ii. ix. 262 Through an unaccountable association of ideas started by the sight of the real town outside the window..Yury remembered the distant panorama of the town. < as lemmas |
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