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| the theory that all mental processes can be described as the operation of inherited or acquired bonds between stimulus and response. |
| Main Entry: | connectionism |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | an approach in artificial intelligence to recreate the connections between nodes of information, in a network or hierarchy, that is equivalent to the brain's connections; also called [parallel distributed processing] |