Question

Describe one way in which titchener's ideas of structuralism and james' emphasis on functionalism differ

Answer 1

In 1879, psychology began as a science of its own in Germany with the formation of Wundt’s psychology laboratory. He industrialized the technique of objective introspection. Titchener, a pupil of Wundt, brought psychology in the form of structuralism to America. Structuralism died out in the early twentieth century. William James suggested a countering point of view called functionalism, which stressed the way the mind permits us to familiarize. While, functionalism influenced the contemporary fields of educational psychology, evolutionary psychology, and industrial/organizational psychology.