connectionism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of several fields of psychology that model brain processes in terms of interconnected networks.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "What accounts for the cool reaction to the emergence of connectionism in the 1980s on the part of people who study language for a living? […] It is clear that many linguists view connectionism as a revival of the radical empiricist approach that dominated the dark ages in psychology—the behaviourist era."
- "[Jerry] Fodor was a bitter opponent of connectionism, arguing that there are key features of our mental lives that it cannot explain. In particular, it cannot explain the fact that many of our cognitive capacities are systematically related to one another."
Etymology
Etymology tree English connection Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English connectionism From connection + -ism.