ASSOCIATIONISM


Meaning of ASSOCIATIONISM in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ə-ˌsō-sē-ˈā-shə-ˌni-zəm, -ˌsō-shē- ]

noun

Date: 1875

: a reductionist school of psychology that holds that the content of consciousness can be explained by the association and reassociation of irreducible sensory and perceptual elements

• as·so·ci·a·tion·ist -ˈā-sh(ə-)nist noun

• as·so·ci·a·tion·is·tic -ˌā-shə-ˈnis-tik adjective

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.