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causal law
causal law In this historical psychology usage, a causal law is the basic rule proposed to explain association in thought: if two elementary brain processes have occurred together or one right after the other, the return of one tends to arouse the other.
In this historical psychology usage, a causal law is the basic rule proposed to explain association in thought: if two elementary brain processes have occurred together or one right after the other, the return of one tends to arouse the other. On this view, familiar mental links such as contiguity, similarity, and contrast are treated as outcomes of this more fundamental law of neural habit.