Do we have and do need more than associations to account for mental activities? A radical associationism proposal should be able to merge the fields of associative, statistical and Hebbian learning. This would unify these theoretical and empirical approaches, schematically represented above. Dates correspond to key publications that have changed the trajectory of theorising in psychology, for example Chomsky, 1959; Hebb, 1949; Pavlov, 1927; Rumelhart et al., 1986; Saffran et al., 1996; Skinner, 1938; Thorndike, 1905.
For a thorough consideration of this hypothesis,
see the target article and diverse responses:
Arnaud Rey (2024).
Associations Are All We Need.
L’Année Psychologique / Topics in Psychology N° 142 (2): 165–98 — @HAL
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