contiguity learning theory

a theory stating that if a pattern of stimulation and a response occur together in time and space, learning occurs by the formation of associations between them, so that the same stimulus pattern will elicit the same response on subsequent occasions. See also S–R psychology. [proposed by Edwin R. Guthrie]

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Psychology term of the day

December 23rd 2024

DET

diethyltryptamine: a synthetic hallucinogen belonging to the indolealkylamine family, to which LSD, psilocin, and DMT also belong.