Abstract
The most persistent advocate of conditioning is undoubtedly E. R. Guthrie. Guthrie considers association by contiguity in time, or “simultaneous conditioning,” the most general law in psychology. “Stimuli acting at the time of a response tend on their recurrence to evoke that response,” he says. Any other type of behavior can be derived from simultaneous conditioning. Especially the processes of learning represent the general law of stimulaneous conditioning or association by contiguity in time of stimuli and responses. “The outstanding characteristics of learning which have been expressed in forms of frequency, intensity, irradiation, temporary extinction, conditioned inhibition, forgetting, forward and backward conditioning, and so on, are all derivable from this more general law,” 1 Guthrie believes.
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