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In psychology, the process of forming mental connections or bonds between sensations, ideas, or memories.
Though discussed by the ancient Greeks (in terms of similarities, contrasts, and contiguities), the "association of ideas" was first proposed by David Hume , John Stuart Mill , Herbert Spencer , and William James . Ivan Pavlov used objective methods to study the phenomenon, resulting in his identification of the conditioned reflex (see conditioning ). Within psychoanalysis , the therapist encourages "free association" in order to help identify latent conflicts . Practitioners of Gestalt psychology and others have criticized associationist theories as too all-embracing, while some theorists of cognitive psychology have made it central to their theory of memory .
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