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Lawrence Kohlberg was born in 1927 at Bronxville, New York and died in 1987 at Boston, Massachusetts .
Laws of association refer to those laws thought responsible for holding mental events together in memory . For Aristotle, the Laws of association consisted of the Laws of contiguity , contrast, similarity, and frequency .
Laws of imitation refers to an explanation of crime as learned behavior . Individuals are thought to emulate behavior patterns of others with whom they have contact .
Laws of perceptual organization are series of rules proposed by the Gestalt psychologists that specify how people organize small parts into wholes. Some of these laws are common fate, familiarity, good continuation, good figure, nearness, and similarity. Most of these laws were originally proposed by the Gestalt psychologists, but modern researchers have proposed some additional laws