PSYC 3305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Margaret Floy Washburn, Edward B. Titchener, Applied Psychology
12 Mar 2018
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Psyc 3305 lecture 12 notes structuralism & functionalism. Structuralism: the school of psychology founded by titchener, the goal of which was to describe the structure of the mind, for titchener, the task of psychology was to analyze consciousness into its component parts and determine its structure. Elements of consciousness: consciousness: sum total of experiences, 3 elementary states of consciousness, sensations: the basic elements of perception (from the senses) Images: the elements of ideas (from memory and experience: affections: the elements of emotions (from love and hate, etc, the attributes of sensations and images are quality, intensity, protensity, and extensity, quality: variation in basic experiences. Functionalism: the school of psychological thought concerned with the mind as it functions or is used by an organism in adapting to its environment, functionalism was a distinctively american, eclectic approach to psychology. The common themes of functionalism: opposed the (cid:858)sterile sear(cid:272)h(cid:859) for the ele(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts of (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess.
