association by similarity
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Typically, the preliminary stage consists in recall; and association by similarity, bringing together materials from different past experiences, is very important as a preliminary to invention.
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth
In association by similarity, it is not the whole present object that arouses recall of the similar object, but some part of the present object.
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth
Are not these food taboos rather, Dr. Marett asks, a "misapplication of the ideas of association by similarity and contiguity" amounting to the sympathetic taboos so carefully described by such writers on Magic as MM.
From Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Melvin Moses Knight
Things that are actually associated as contrasting with each other have something in common; and therefore association by contrast could be included under association by similarity.
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth
The machinery of association by similarity is the same, with the addition of a second response, called out by the new characteristics of the present object.
From Psychology A Study Of Mental Life by Robert S. Woodworth
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