• Association by contiguity and repetition
• His fundamental law of association is contiguity by which he attempted to explain the process of memory, reasoning, emotion, and voluntary and involuntary action
• Repetition; notion that the more frequently two ideas occur together, the more readily they will be associated
• Supporter of blank slate
• Suggested that the nerves are solid structures and that vibrations of the nerves transmitted impulses from one part of the body to another

Source:

Rea, Cornelius. Ph.D.; Lectures of A History of a Modern Psychology
Shultz & Shultz. Ph.D; A history of modern psychology

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