SUMMARY OF FUNCTIONALISM

FUNCTIONALISM

Charles Darwin – Father of Evaluation

William James – mental life for the sake of action

Mental organization

mind adapts the environment

Production and Utilization

learning

perception

habit

knowledge

testing

end product

John Dewey

-reflex arc (response)

James Angell

-postulates the school of functionalism

Harvey Carr

Mental Activity

Production storage attending

Utilization

Responsive stage adoption

Adjust to the environment

Problem Solving

Perceptual motor response

Fixated

Harvard

James Lange Theory of Emotion

William Carl

Walter Cannon

Hanna Selyl – (GAS) General Adaptation Syndrome

Henry Murray – Personology

Gordon Allport – Trait

John Hopkin

Graham S. Hall

-American Psychological Society

-Psychology of adolescence and senescence

Adolf Meyer

-Mental Hygiene

Yale

George Ladd – Psychological Society of Columbia

Raymund Cattell – Factor Theory

-Capacity psychology

Robert Woodworth – Dynamic Psychology

Chicago

John Dewey

James Angell