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 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. 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
