Similarly, associative symmetry is violated when there are differing amounts of associative connections between the individual associated elements. For example, in the  green/toucan case, most thinkers will have many more associations stemming from  green than stemming from  toucan. Suppose we have a thinker that only associates toucan with  green,  but associates  green with a large host of other concepts (e.g.,  grass,   vegetables,  tea,   kermit,  seasickness,   moss, mold,  lantern,   ireland, etc). In this case one can expect that   toucan will more quickly activate  green than   green will activate  toucan, for the former bond will have its activation strength less weakened amongst other associates than the latter will.