The Law of "Association" or Simply,Habit :)

I remembered learning about this in Psychology 101 during the college's day. Noticeably, the Frued's test experiment on Learning by association or academically known as "Classical Conditioning". In a nutshell, it is something like how our brain conditions itself according to some triggers that was learned through some past experience....

http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/behsys/classcnd.html

I found this very "real" in the animal world. My dog at home exhibit this bahaviour almost everyday. Every night, when I'm back home from work and as I walk to the kitchen, somehow my dog knows that it's about "dinners' time". The moment I took the mug out, she will jumping around and waited with strong anticipation that I will next walk to the yard with the mug of water and then follow by her food.....

Now back to human world... are we somehow like that as well? Did you consciously or unconsciously realise that sometimes when you walk through some "places" or smell of something, you will immediately reacts with the "same" responses? Yes, for me it does..... :)

In layman, this is what's we term as "habit"......