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Associationism
Associationism meaning
A theory that association (of experiences etc) is the basis of consciousness and mental activity
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It also led to the development of psychology and other new disciplines with David Hartley 's attempt to discover a biological mechanism for associationism in his Observations on Man ( 1749 ).
The predominant educational psychology from the 1750s onward, especially in northern European countries was associationism, the notion that the mind associates or dissociates ideas through repeated routines.