Laws of association

{{refimprove|date=January 2023}} [[File:Aristotle Senses Perception Memory Dreams Action.svg|thumb|upright=2.3|Laws of association in Aristotle's psychology. Impressions are stored in the seat of perception, linked by the laws of similarity, contrast, and contiguity.]]

In psychology, the principal '''laws of association''' are contiguity, repetition, attention, pleasure-pain, and similarity. The basic laws were formulated by Aristotle in approximately 300 B.C. and by John Locke in the seventeenth century. Both philosophers taught that the mind at birth is a blank slate and that all knowledge has to be acquired by learning. The laws they taught still make up the backbone of modern learning theory.

== References == {{Reflist}} *[http://www.bcp.psych.ualberta.ca/~mike/Pearl_Street/Dictionary/contents/L/lawsofassoc.html Laws of Association] - ''Dictionary of Cognitive Science'' - Dr. Michael R.W. Dawson and Dr. David A. Medler. Retrieved 8 March 2012.

Category:Cognitive science