association
Let an agent handle association as a psychological concept by type, formation, evidence and application.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent handle association as a psychological concept by type, formation, evidence and application.
In psychology, a mental connection between ideas, events, stimuli or responses formed through experience, as in associative learning and memory; also the tendency to link concepts, and attribution of causes in social psychology.
What it is for: Explaining learning, memory, and how thoughts link together.
It can be study associative learning; use associations in memory techniques; measure associations in experiments; recognise biased associations.
Distinguishing features
Mental link formed by experience
Basis of conditioning
Can be implicit
Can carry biases
What it looks like
Not visible; inferred from behaviour and responses.
How it is recognised
Stimulus-response pairings
Free association tasks
Association as an organisation is a different sense
Related models
is a kind of - category
is studied by - field
underlies - processes
is confused with - another sense
In practice
Families and kinds
classical conditioning associations
operant associations
semantic associations
free association
implicit associations
Standards and regulation
Research ethics for psychological studies
Failure modes and hazards
Overinterpreting implicit association tests
Confusing correlation with association in statistics
Mixing senses
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.association-group
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Concept Which association.
Kinds differ.
Kind
Conditioning, semantic.
Kind
Association type.
- Which kind of association is meant? definition
- In which theory? provenance
Formation
How it forms.
Formation
Formation.
- How is the association formed? definition
- How can it be weakened? definition
Evidence Research.
Evidence varies.
Studies
Experiments.
Studies
Studies.
- What experiments support the claim? provenance
- Have they replicated? provenance
Measures
Tests.
Measures
Measures.
- How is the association measured? definition
- How valid is the measure? boundary
Application Uses.
Associations are used.
Memory
Techniques.
Memory
Memory techniques.
- How are associations used in memory techniques? action
- How effective are they? provenance
Therapy
Clinical use.
Therapy
Clinical use.
- How do therapies use associative learning? definition
- Who provides them? boundary
Senses Disambiguation.
Association has many senses.
Organisation
Societies.
Organisation
Organisation sense.
- Is a voluntary association or society meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Statistics
Correlation.
Statistics
Statistical sense.
- Is a statistical association meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should kinds be separate entries?
- How should the organisation sense be split off?
- How should statistical association be linked?