associationism
noun
as·so·ci·a·tion·ism
ə-ˌsō-sē-ˈā-shə-ˌni-zəm
-ˌsō-shē-
: a reductionist school of psychology that holds that the content of consciousness can be explained by the association and reassociation of irreducible sensory and perceptual elements
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