Option #3 The idea that memories are formed in our minds by associations of indi

Option #3
The idea that memories are formed in our minds by associations of individual elements – associationism – has been with us for a long time, at least since Aristotle. Please briefly cover all the following points:
Outline the major milestones in the history and development of this concept (i.e. the thinkers involved and their specific proposals).
Explain the importance of this in the context of Hebb’s Principle: “neurons that fire together, wire together,” as a simple but powerful potential neural mechanism which could account for associative learning.
Discuss any modern experimental evidence that Hebb (and Aristotle) were right.
class note: (there are some important concepts) please check
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FJ2YfDWi48RG1ESD5PeNf4pMNvM4h_UWsjz9U3BSBBk/edit?usp=sharing
some key concept you should consider put in the outline:
– explicit/ implicit memory
– Kamin’s Blocking Effect
– The Rescorla–Wagner Model
– Latent inhibition effect
William James: memories are networks of associations, with similar memories sharing key elements in common
PIvan Pavlov: associations that exist in the world.
Edward Thorndike: animals learn to associate given behaviors with desirable or undesirable outcomes.-

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