psy290 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: James Olds, Positive Psychology, Sq3R
16 Jan 2018
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Compare structuralism and functionalism, and discuss their impact on the development of psychology. (page 5-7) Structuralism: based on the task of psychology is to analyze consciousness into its basic elements and investigate how these elements are related. Functionalism: based on the belief that psychology should investigate the function or purpose of consciousness, rather than its structure. Structuralism: examined fundamental components of conscious experience existence like sensations, feelings, and images. Functionalists: brought interest in mental testing, patterns of development, effective education practices, and behavioral differences between sexes. Functionalism: developed two modern schools of psychology thought: applied psychology and behaviourism. Describe watson"s view of psychology with special references to the nature- nurture issue and animal research. (page 7-8: watson argued for nurture. Why did the gestalt psychologists take issue with the behaviourists school? (page 8) Gestalt theorists were primarily concerned with perception argued that psychology should continue to study conscious experience rather than overt behaviour.
