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" <chri...@yorku.ca> 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
