associationismn.
/əˌsəʊʃɪˈeɪʃənɪz(ə)m/ The doctrine that mental and moral phenomena may be accounted for by association of ideas.
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associationism1875
1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 732/2 To account for the fact of synthesis in cognition, in express opposition to associationism.
1882 Athenæum 28 Jan. 118/1 Points where Mill's mind emancipated itself from the narrow range of associationism in psychology.
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. x. 338 All the individual thoughts and feelings which have succeeded each other ‘up to date’ are represented by ordinary Associationism as in some inscrutable way ‘integrating’ or gumming themselves together.
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