PS390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Normal Distribution, C. Lloyd Morgan, Magnificent Hummingbird
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Jenny functioned like a 2 year old but she was an orangutan. People from europe were in awe she could use a spoon to eat from a plate, drank tea from a cup, and understood what her keeper told her. The visitor that was so impressed with jenny was charles darwin. Charles darwin and his notion of evolution changed the focus of the new psychology from the structure of consciousness to its functions. Functionalism is concerned with how the mind functions or how it is used by an organism to adapt to its environment. Functionalism was a deliberate protest against wundt"s experimental psychology and. Major work on the functions of consciousness, on individual differences, and on animal behaviour was being performed at the same time wundt and titchener chose to exclude these areas from their definitions of psychology. The idea of evolution did not begin with darwin. Can be traced to the 5th century bc.
