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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
associative
adjective
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■ NOUN
learning
▪ The second argument is based on the conclusion derived in Chapter 4 that associative learning tends to be context-dependent.
▪ Indeed it is even possible to produce a form of associative learning in which behavioural and neurophysiological inputs are mixed.
▪ It often prepares organisms for associative learning.
▪ The kind of associative learning shown by rats and pigeons in these experiments is often called conditioning.
▪ By contrast with their failure to affect habituation, the protein synthesis inhibitors did produce amnesia for associative learning.
▪ A convenient distinction, which helps to organize the research on learning, is that between non-associative and associative learning.
▪ These three types were described under associative learning.
▪ Thus sensitization lacks the specificity which is the hallmark of truly associative learning in which a particular pairing of stimuli is achieved.
strength
▪ Training with A will allow both its unique a elements and the c elements to acquire associative strength.
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▪ A2 and M2 are the associative laws of addition and multiplication respectively.
▪ Again, the distributed associative memory model may well suggest efficient and plausible ways of doing this.
▪ And so rhetoric allows associative feminist psychologists to address psychology from outside, but from a recognizable and relevant perspective.
▪ But elements of a more ambivalent, productive, associative approach to signification also exist within feminist psychology.
▪ Have these words formed some kind of associative network?
▪ The exclusion of associative adjectives from predicative position is an automatic result.
▪ What could be the rules for the necessary associative learning processes?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Associative

Associative \As*so"ci*a*tive\, a. Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty.
--Hugh Miller.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
associative

1812, from associate (v.) + -ive.

Wiktionary
associative

a. 1 Pertaining to, resulting from, or characterised by association; capable of associating; tending to associate or unite. 2 (context algebra of an operator * English) such that, for any operands a, b, c , (a * b) * c = a * (b * c) 3 (context computing English) addressable by a key more complex than an integer index

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associative

  1. adj. relating to or resulting from association; "associative recall"

  2. characterized by or causing or resulting from association; "associative learning" [syn: associatory] [ant: nonassociative]

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Usage examples of "associative".

Some physiologists suppose that the cerebellum is the source of that harmony or associative power which co-ordinates all voluntary movements, and effects that delicate adjustment of cause to effect, displayed in muscular action.

The brain has now reached its maximum size and weight, any further changes being due to the formation of associative pathways along nerve centres.

My task is to gather knowledge of the world that surrounds the Associative, of good places to mine the minerals and the metals necessary to our health, and to keep watch out for and provide warning of potential dangers.

You must come hack to the Associative with me and tell all this to the libraries.

Each specialized in providing a particular service to the Associative as a whole.

Azure said tersely, and went on to explain that the living switchboards enabled members of the Associative to stay in touch with each other over considerable distances.

The Associative would also send along a number of additional members to ensure the success of his search.

The next half dozen headed straight for the center of the Associative, where a cylindrical conclave of walls housed the rare earths and mineral salts vital to silicate health and growth.

The rest of the raiding party, baskets half full of dismembered members of the Associative, hurried to help.

If it had been left to the warriors none would have escaped the ambush, but the libraries had decreed that some should live so that they might inform others of their kind that this Associative, at least, ought to be left alone at night as well as during the day.

They prefer to remain in one place and move only when the entire Associative moves to a new location.

Azure, the library, the physicians, and the other senior members of the Associative might be thousands of years old.

The towering talkers had less mobility than any other member of the Associative, which was why none had come along in the first place.

A profound confession, coming from library, who was after all the repository of every bit of knowledge the members of the Associative had ever accumulated.

They come from an Associative, but I am the greatest Associative that has ever been or ever will be.