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jpetrovic [What is connectionism?]
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 Connectionism represents psychology'​s first comprehensive theory of learning(([[http://​books.google.hr/​books?​id=bqo5A2nBwHYC&​printsec=frontcover#​v=onepage&​q&​f=false|Zimmerman,​ Barry J., and Dale H. Schunk. Educational psychology: a century of contributions. Routledge, 2003.]])). It was introduced by [[http://​www.mnsu.edu/​emuseum/​information/​biography/​pqrst/​spencer_herbert.html|Herbert Spencer]], [[http://​plato.stanford.edu/​entries/​james/​|William James]] and his student [[http://​www.muskingum.edu/​~psych/​psycweb/​history/​thorndike.htm|Edward Thorndike]] in the very beginning of the 20th century. Connectionism was then **based on principles of associationism** which claimed that(([[http://​citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/​viewdoc/​download?​doi=10.1.1.86.7504&​rep=rep1&​type=pdf|Medler,​ David A. A Brief History of Connectionism. Neural Computing Surveys, 1(2), p18-72. 1998.]]))(([[http://​books.google.hr/​books?​id=wFqlQgAACAAJ&​dq=Connectionism+and+the+Mind:​+An+Introduction+to+Parallel+Processing+in+Networks&​hl=hr&​ei=kKdrTdv3C5Sq8QPzs8W_BQ&​sa=X&​oi=book_result&​ct=result&​resnum=1&​ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA|W. Bechtel and Abrahamsen, A. Connectionism and the Mind: An Introduction to Parallel Processing in Networks. Blackwell, Cambridge, MA, 1991.]])): ​ Connectionism represents psychology'​s first comprehensive theory of learning(([[http://​books.google.hr/​books?​id=bqo5A2nBwHYC&​printsec=frontcover#​v=onepage&​q&​f=false|Zimmerman,​ Barry J., and Dale H. Schunk. Educational psychology: a century of contributions. Routledge, 2003.]])). It was introduced by [[http://​www.mnsu.edu/​emuseum/​information/​biography/​pqrst/​spencer_herbert.html|Herbert Spencer]], [[http://​plato.stanford.edu/​entries/​james/​|William James]] and his student [[http://​www.muskingum.edu/​~psych/​psycweb/​history/​thorndike.htm|Edward Thorndike]] in the very beginning of the 20th century. Connectionism was then **based on principles of associationism** which claimed that(([[http://​citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/​viewdoc/​download?​doi=10.1.1.86.7504&​rep=rep1&​type=pdf|Medler,​ David A. A Brief History of Connectionism. Neural Computing Surveys, 1(2), p18-72. 1998.]]))(([[http://​books.google.hr/​books?​id=wFqlQgAACAAJ&​dq=Connectionism+and+the+Mind:​+An+Introduction+to+Parallel+Processing+in+Networks&​hl=hr&​ei=kKdrTdv3C5Sq8QPzs8W_BQ&​sa=X&​oi=book_result&​ct=result&​resnum=1&​ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA|W. Bechtel and Abrahamsen, A. Connectionism and the Mind: An Introduction to Parallel Processing in Networks. Blackwell, Cambridge, MA, 1991.]])): ​
  
-  * Mental elements or ideas become associated with one another through experience +  * //Mental elements or ideas become associated with one another through experience// 
-  * Experience consists of such things as spatial and temporal contiguity and (dis)similarity of ideas +  * //Experience consists of such things as spatial and temporal contiguity and (dis)similarity of ideas// 
-  * Complex ideas are composed and can be reduced to a set of simple ideas +  * //Complex ideas are composed and can be reduced to a set of simple ideas// 
-  * Simple ideas are sensations +  * //Simple ideas are sensations// 
-  * Simple additive rules are sufficient to predict complex ideas+  * //Simple additive rules are sufficient to predict complex ideas//
    
 But connectionism **expands** this **ideas of associationism** by introducing ideas like [[:​glossary#​distributed_representations|distributed representations]] or supervised learning(([[http://​citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/​viewdoc/​download?​doi=10.1.1.86.7504&​rep=rep1&​type=pdf|Medler,​ David A. A Brief History of Connectionism. Neural Computing Surveys, 1(2), p18-72. 1998.]])) and should not be confused with associationism. But connectionism **expands** this **ideas of associationism** by introducing ideas like [[:​glossary#​distributed_representations|distributed representations]] or supervised learning(([[http://​citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/​viewdoc/​download?​doi=10.1.1.86.7504&​rep=rep1&​type=pdf|Medler,​ David A. A Brief History of Connectionism. Neural Computing Surveys, 1(2), p18-72. 1998.]])) and should not be confused with associationism.
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