PREMID ASSIGNMENT COURSE TITLE: APPLIED PSYCHOGY SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED BY: AIZA SAGHIR SEMESTER: 1st SECTION: B SESSION: 2018-2022 KINNAIRD COLLEGE FOR WOMEN INTRODUCTION Deification :Functionalism is the dominant theory of mental states in modern philosophy and modern psychology. Functionalism was developed as an answer to the mind –body problem because of objections to both identity theory and logical behaviorism .its core idea is that the mental states can be accounted for without taking into account the underplaying physical medium (the neurons ) ,instead attending to higher level functions such as belief desire and emotions /.FUNCTIONALISM AT HARVARDA. William James: ? William James (1842- 1910)? Cr ? He sought to re-conceive of the human mind as inherently purposive and selective.? Speculations? Pragmatism is the cornerstone of functionalism.
? Behaviors, thoughts, or beliefs must be judged by their consequences. ? A practical science? Research on many participants? • Inputs include perceptual stimuli and other mental states, outputs include behavior and other mental states.• Functional states are not identical physical states. The property having the function x’ can be realized by many different things, being a Mousetrap, being a poison. FUNCTIONALISM AT CLARKA. G.
Stanley Hall? G. Stanley Hall (1844 – 1924)? Influenced by Darwin’ evolutionary and Haeckel’s recapitulation theory? mirrors the evolution of the species.• start the child development movement in the U.
S.• Hall work on Adolescence is revolutionary..
One of the father of Industrial psychology . He wrote hundreds of popular magazines and dozens of books.View of I/O Psychology: • Interest in applied area clinical , industrial and forensic psychology • One of the father of industrial and organizational psychology • Eyewitness testimony • • He also believed that adolescence was a good time to study human instinctual makeup.• Hall also focused on the study of the end of the lifespan.• Functionalism is the dominant theory of mental states in modern philosophy and modern psychology. Functionalism was developed as an answer to the mind –body problem because of objections to both identity theory and logical behaviorism .
its core idea is that the mental states can be accounted for without taking into account the underplaying physical medium (the neurons ) ,ins Functionalism is the dominant theory of mental states in modern philosophy and modern psychology. Functionalism was developed as an answer to the mind –body problem because of objections to both identity theory and logical behaviorism .its core idea is that the mental states can be accounted for without taking into account the underplaying physical medium (the neurons ) ,instead attending to higher level functions such as belief desire and emotions tead attending to higher level functions such as belief desire and emotions• Inputs include perceptual stimuli and other mental states, outputs include behavior and other mental states.
• Functional states are not identical physical states. The property having the function x’ can be realized by many different things, being a Mousetrap, being a poison.• Inputs include perceptual stimuli and other mental states, outputs include behavior and other mental states.
• o Speculationso Pragmatism is the cornerstone of functionalism.o Behaviors, thoughts, or beliefs must be judged by their consequences. • Never a well-defined school• physical medium (the neurons ) ,instead attending to higher level functions such as belief desire and emotions tead attending to higher level functions such as belief desire and emotions• Functionalism is the dominant theory of mental states in modern philosophy and modern psychology. Functionalism was developed as an answer to the mind –body problem because of objections to both identity theory and logical behaviorism .its core idea is that the mental states can be accounted for without taking into account the underplaying physical medium (the neurons ) ,ins Functionalism is the dominant theory of mental states in modern philosophy and modern psychology. Functionalism was developed as an answer to the mind –body problem because of objections to both identity theory and logical behaviorism .its core idea is that the mental states can be accounted for without taking into account the underplaying physical medium (the neurons ) ,instead attending to higher level functions such as belief desire and emotions tead attending to higher level functions such as belief desire and emotions
