PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Wilhelm Wundt, National Academies Of Sciences, Engineering, And Medicine, Psychological Bulletin
28 Mar 2017
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James angell: presented the three major points of functionalism, functional psychology is interested in mental operations, not conscious elements, mental processes mediate between the needs of the organism and the environment. Mental functions help the organism survive: mind and body cannot be separated, they act as a unit in an organism"s struggle for survival. James cattell: proposed that psychology should be applying its methods in all human activity because that is what humans do (applied psychology), through his many editorships and ownerships of journals (including. Psychological review), he advanced the discipline of psychology and particularly functional psychology. Robert s. woodworth: interested in what and why of people"s behavior, particularly motivation. This is called anthropocentrism: morgan sought to correct romanes" problems by applying morgan"s canon: James mark baldwin: co-founded the psychological review with cattell, he was also the first editor of apa"s other flagship journal, Psychological bulletin: founded the first psychology laboratory in canada at the.
