Noun
The doctrine or theory held by associationists.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt 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 ). Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet