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On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:43:08 -0800, Michael Sylvester wrote: >Was there ever a school of psychology referrred to as "connectionism"? No. Connectionism follows in the tradition of the theory of mental associations and associative learning. >I am aware that learning theory utilized the term "stimulus-response >connections" >but that was probably a general term.Or am I thinking more of Estes and Guthrie >learning theories? First, see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1284756/pdf/jeabehav007200300451.pdf The way I was taught stimulus sampling theory, Estes and Guthrie have nothing to do with connectionism. Second, see Wally Schneider's paper whether the re-emerging field of neural networks (first popularized in the 1950s with perceptron but faded because of mathematical problems but reinvigorated with the solution of these mathematical problems) aka connectionism represented a paradigm shift in cognitive psychology's conception of how the mind performs computations (i.e., rule and symbol architectures versus connectionist architectures): http://www.springerlink.com/content/5x6j2j3765566640/ Third, for a more comprehensive view of cognitive architectures and the role that connectionist architecture play, see Bechtel and Abrahamson's book "Connectionism and the Mind"; available on books.google.com -- see: http://books.google.com/books?id=QYlJzBjl4-kC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=schneider+paradigm+connectionism&source=bl&ots=cXyewtzuOs&sig=kd_YeHwAutX8GBoErL0KrDzW2F0&hl=en&ei=4o7aTpPAK6Pj0QHKqOCHDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=schneider%20paradigm%20connectionism&f=false -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=14605 or send a blank email to leave-14605-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] info:History of Psych
When discussing Lashley's "search for the engram," I would often describe it as testing a "connectionist" or "associationist" theory of learning as opposed to a more Gestaltist view. Of course, Lashley's laws of mass action & equipotentiality are decidedly Gestaltist in flavor. Ed Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Psychology West Chester University of Pennsylvania http://home.comcast.net/~epollak/ Husband, father, grandfather, bluegrass fiddler, banjoist & biopsychologist... in approximate order of importance --- Subject: info:History of Psych From: "michael sylvester" Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 09:43:11 -0500 X-Message-Number: 1 Was there ever a school of psychology referrred to as "connectionism"? I am aware that learning theory utilized the term "stimulus-response connections" but that was probably a general term.Or am I thinking more of Estes and Guthrie learning theories? --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=14601 or send a blank email to leave-14601-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] info:History of Psych
Hi Google's ngram viewer shows the frequency of the term in print over time. See http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=connectionism&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=0 Low usage around 1900, modest between 1920 and 1980 or so, and increasing usage after that, as Chris mentioned. I thought clicking on the dates below the graph usually brought up just the works of that time period, but did not seem to be working here, so I could not easily find out what works were being cited during the earlier periods. I wondered if the term might have been synonymous with associationism, which was quite a strong perspective in certain areas of early psychology. Here's frequencies for both terms over time. http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=connectionism%2C+associationism&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=0 Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca >>> "Christopher D. Green" 02-Dec-11 9:44 AM >>> On 12/2/11 9:43 AM, michael sylvester wrote: > Was there ever a school of psychology referrred to as "connectionism"? > I am aware that learning theory utilized the term "stimulus-response > connections" but that was probably a general term.Or am I thinking > more of Estes and Guthrie learning theories? Since the 1980s, the computational cognitive architecture also known as "parallel distributed processing" or "neural networks" has been called "connectionism" (or, sometimes, "the new connectionism"). It is "new" because Thorndike's view of how responses are "stamped in" by experience was also sometimes called "connectionism" (though, importantly, Thorndike was *not* a behaviorist. We was pre-behaviorist. Inasmuch as he belonged to any "school," he was a functionalist, having studied with James and employed at Columbia). Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ == --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9&n=T&l=tips&o=14574 or send a blank email to leave-14574-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=14577 or send a blank email to leave-14577-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] info:History of Psych
On 12/2/11 9:43 AM, michael sylvester wrote: > Was there ever a school of psychology referrred to as "connectionism"? > I am aware that learning theory utilized the term "stimulus-response > connections" but that was probably a general term.Or am I thinking > more of Estes and Guthrie learning theories? Since the 1980s, the computational cognitive architecture also known as "parallel distributed processing" or "neural networks" has been called "connectionism" (or, sometimes, "the new connectionism"). It is "new" because Thorndike's view of how responses are "stamped in" by experience was also sometimes called "connectionism" (though, importantly, Thorndike was *not* a behaviorist. We was pre-behaviorist. Inasmuch as he belonged to any "school," he was a functionalist, having studied with James and employed at Columbia). Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ == --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=14574 or send a blank email to leave-14574-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] info:History of Psych
Was there ever a school of psychology referrred to as "connectionism"? I am aware that learning theory utilized the term "stimulus-response connections" but that was probably a general term.Or am I thinking more of Estes and Guthrie learning theories? Michael --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=14570 or send a blank email to leave-14570-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
