David Hartley (1705-1757)
- 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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