Laws of association

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.