associationist
- noun
- /əˌsoʊsiˈeɪʃənɪst/
- Specialized
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asociacionista
- It was Gagne, however, who traced the historical development of learning and merged two major camps—the associationists and the cognitivists.
Examples
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And this is because there is no end to them; in this sense, he is a freer associationist than Freud.
Academic text (1992) -
No earthshaking discovery this, and certainly not a starting point that distinguishes these psychologists from 19th-century associationists, behaviorists, and cognitivists.
Academic text (1992) -
An associationist believes that our memories and thoughts connect through previous experiences.
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As an associationist, she focuses on how learning occurs through the association of related ideas.
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Many psychologists today identify as associationists, emphasizing the link between thought and experience.
Surface Forms
Morphology
associationist = association (transparent) = association + ist
Standard agentive formation: someone who holds or advocates the view implied by 'association'.
Etymology
Associationist The noun associationist is built from association ('to join together') and the ending -ist ('a person who follows a belief'). A helpful image is a chain of ideas: an associationist is someone who believes our thoughts and memories form by linking ideas together.
