2015年3月17日 · Associationism is a theory that connects learning to thought based on principles of the organism’s causal history. Since its early roots, associationists have sought to use the history of an organism’s experience as the main sculptor of cognitive architecture.

Associationism is the idea that mental processes operate by the association of one mental state with its successor states. [1] It holds that all mental processes are made up of discrete psychological elements and their combinations, which are believed to be made up of sensations or simple feelings. [2]

Associationism as a general philosophy of mind arguably reached its pinnacle in the work of the British Empiricists. These authors were explicit in their view of association as the key explanatory principle of the mind.

2018年4月19日 · n. the theory that complex mental processes, such as thinking, learning, and memory, can be wholly or mainly explained by the associative links formed between ideas (see association of ideas) according to specific laws.

Although Hume is generally acknowledged as laying the theoretical foundation of associationism, there is some evidence that Francis Hutcheson’s use of associations greatly influenced him.

n. the theory that complex mental processes, such as thinking, learning, and memory, can be mainly explained by the associative links that connect ideas, according to specific laws and principles (see association of ideas).

Associationism in a broad sense assumes principles of development or psychological change that are structure-independent. A set of associative relations defined over a collection of components, however, is itself a form of organization.

2018年5月29日 · Associationism >The view that mental processes can be explained in terms of the association >of ideas. Advanced primarily by a succession of 18th- and 19th-century British philosophers, associationism anticipated developments in the modern field of psychology in a variety of ways.

Associationism refers to a scientific and philosophical movement that focuses on the representation and computation of ideas within the human mind. According to this perspective, our behavior is guided by the associations formed among these ideas.

Although bare-boned associationism provides a good approximation of Hume and Pavlov, it doesn’t quite capture the full theory of those working in operant conditioning paradigms for it doesn’t involve any notion of reinforcement, or updating one’s associative structure based on …