Research on Pavlovian conditioning has found that acquisition of a conditional response is fastest when the CS precedes the US by ½ second. This finding illustrates which of Hume's laws of association?

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Hume's law of contiguity states that ideas and events are associated based on their temporal contiguity or proximity in time. The finding that the CS preceding the US by ½ second results in the fastest acquisition of a conditional response is a demonstration of the law of contiguity.

Research on Pavlovian Conditioning Has Found That Acquisition of a Conditional