What are association and imagination? What's the difference between them?

Association is a kind of ideological activity, because of one thing and think of related things. This scene is reminiscent of Du Fu's poem "Sunset Terrace, Spring Tea".

Imagination is imagination. Through these clues, we can roughly imagine the life of primitive people.

The difference is that "association" refers to thinking of other related people or things because of someone or something, and "imagination" refers to thinking of specific images or situations that are not in sight.

"Imagination" and "association" overlap but are different, and sometimes they are mixed. "Imagination" can be infinite, and "association" must start from an existing thing?

"Association" can sometimes start from an existing thing to another thing, and "imagination" is generally limited to a fictional goal.

Association is a way of psychological activity and an important way of conception. It is characterized by thinking from one thing to another that has a certain connection with it. In our life, there will be associations anytime and anywhere. Speaking of "autumn wind", you often think of "fallen leaves" immediately. Why do you think of "fallen leaves"? Because "autumn wind" and "fallen leaves" not only often appear together in time and space, but also have a certain causal relationship between them, which is "associative association" and "causal association".

We like to compare children to "flowers" because flowers are bright, attractive and similar to children. This is "similar association". When we mention orphans abandoned by their parents, we will naturally think of our happiness around our parents, which is "comparative association"

When we see a kind female teacher, we often think of our mother, because they are similar in some ways and are equally concerned and considerate to us. This is another kind of "close connection". It can be seen that "correlation", "causality", "similarity", "contrast" and "similarity" are the connections between one thing and another, and this connection is the "bridge of association". ?

Imagination is a purposeful creative thinking activity. Imagination is a psychological activity that uses the existing information (things, knowledge and experience we usually observe) stored in our brain warehouse to construct a new image. , and used the existing information of "wearing the wrong shoes" in the composition) (A joke of Uncle Zhang was built in his composition).

For example, when you finish reading a science fiction novel, you are attracted by its thrilling and confusing plot, as if you came to the vast universe in a spaceship to talk to aliens. For another example, when you hear a beautiful piece of music, you will think of beautiful grasslands and blue sky. The image in your mind at the moment is the result of your imagination. ?

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Lenovo thinks of another thing from one thing, and its content is relatively thin. Generally, there is no specific visual description of the scene, but only a simple idea. For example, "red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple" in Bodhisattva, Great White Land is the real scene (rainbow after rain); "Who dances in the sky and color training" is the association of the author (Mao Zedong).

Although imagination is also caused by concrete things, the content of imagination (imagination) is relatively rich, and there is generally a specific visual description of the scene, which is invisible but reasonable. For example, in The Little Match Girl, it is written that the little girl goes out to sell matches in the cold and dark night. She couldn't stand hunger and cold, so she sat in the corner, lit one match after another, and finally froze to death in the street.