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Associated features refer to clinical features that are not part of the diagnostic criteria for a particular mental disorder, but may frequently occur in association with the disorder.
Englisch: Vereinigung
Association refers to a linkage between two psychological processes or representations as a result of past experience in which the two have occurred together.
Association or polymodal areas refer to brain regions involved in the integration of sensory information from different sensory cortices and linking the sensory cortices to the motor cortices. These associative cortices support complex mental and behavioral functions.
Associationism refers to a philosophical doctrine maintaining that complex ideas are the sum of smaller, more elemental ideas joined together. It examines how events or ideas can become associated with one another in the mind to result in a form of learning. Moreover, Associationism is the philosophical belief that mental phenomena, such as learning, remembering, and imagining, can be explained in terms of the Laws of Association.