The Collaborative International Dictionary
Associational \As*so`ci*a"tion*al\, a.
Of or pertaining to association, or to an association.
Pertaining to the theory held by the associationists.
Wiktionary
a. Of, pertaining to or deriving from association
WordNet
adj. of or relating to associations or associationism
Usage examples of "associational".
Far from being dead, the field is, artistically at least, richer and wider and more varied than it has ever been, with good work being done by writers in every possible subvariety and subgenre you can nameall out there to be found, in spite of the pressure of competition for bookstore rack space by media tie-in and gaming and other associational novels.
Now the theory was that the anamnestic treatment stimulated the memory and caused the consciousness to rehearse the associational complexes of node and network, bounding through the years.