which is software that directly operates the computer hardware, to provide basic functionality needed by users and other software, and to provide a platform for running application software. System software includes:
Definition of ASSOCIATIVE. 1. : of or relating to association especially of ideas or images. 2. : dependent on or acquired by association or learning. 3.
a form of behaviour modification involving the association of two or more events, such as between two stimuli, or between a stimulus and a response. In associative learning, an animal does learn to do something new or better (1994, p. 38, italics mine). There are two broad categories of associative learning: