associationism
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of associationism
An Americanism dating back to 1830–40; association + -ism
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This theory was refuted by the same objection which destroyed aesthetic associationism in general: speech is unity, not multiplicity of images, and multiplicity does not explain, but presupposes the existence of the expression to explain.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
By his development of the doctrine of apperception he took psychology forever beyond the old associationism which had ceased to be fruitful.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
But without returning to apperceptionism we can overcome the one-sidedness of associationism if full use is made of the means which the world of phenomena offers to theory.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
The antithesis is also misinterpreted, or at least wrongly narrowed, if it is called voluntarism versus associationism.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
If the facts which cluster about attention cannot be understood by the simple scheme of associationism, the demand must be for a better physiological theory.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
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