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The associationist psychology, on the other hand, gives an explanation of each particular fact of recollection; and, in so doing, it also gives an explanation of the general faculty.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
That is to say, the associationist passes from genesis to validity, from the history of a conscious state to its objective meaning.
From Illusions A Psychological Study by James Sully
In England, the associationist psychology continued to hold sway, and showed, with Dugald Stewart's miserable attempt at establishing two forms of association, its incapacity to rise to the conception of the imagination.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
It is evident that he did not surrender himself to the associationist idea, even when he was a boarder at Brook Farm and a member of its school.
From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by George Willis Cooke
Modern Criticism.—Of recent years the associationist theory has been subjected to searching criticism, and it has been maintained by many writers that the laws are both unsatisfactorily expressed and insufficient to explain the facts.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
