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associative thinking  

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  • Associative thinking is used to describe memory-based judgment processes that require the decision maker to infer a diagnosis or other category on the basis of the presence or absence of related features through the activation of associations—memories in which features and categories co-occur. Broadly speaking, the mind automatically associates in memory those experiences or concepts that co-occur. [Source: Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making; Associative Thinking]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/associative_thinking

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