Sort each research question by which school would ask it.
Groups: What the mind is MADE OF (Structuralism) · What the mind is FOR (Functionalism)
- How does memory help a person adapt to their environment?
- Can an emotion be decomposed into simpler feeling-components?
- Why did the capacity for sustained attention evolve?
- What are the elementary sensations involved in tasting a lemon?
Hints
- Listen for whether the question hunts for COMPONENTS or for a PURPOSE.
- Decomposition questions are structuralist; adaptive-purpose questions are functionalist.
Show the answer
What the mind is MADE OF (Structuralism): What are the elementary sensations involved in tasting a lemon?, Can an emotion be decomposed into simpler feeling-components?
What the mind is FOR (Functionalism): How does memory help a person adapt to their environment?, Why did the capacity for sustained attention evolve?
Questions seeking the mind's components (elementary sensations, decomposing emotion) are structuralist; questions about purpose and adaptation (how memory helps, why attention evolved) are functionalist. The two schools differ in the QUESTION they ask, not in disputed facts.
Practise Structuralism and Functionalism
The app has 6 more questions on this lesson, and keeps your place in the course. Psychology I is free to start.
More questions on Structuralism and Functionalism
- Select every statement that is TRUE about the founding schools.
- Psychology dates its founding to Wundt opening a laboratory in 1879, not to a book or a theory. Why does the…
- Two trained introspectionists in different laboratories examined the same stimulus and reported different…
- Structuralism and functionalism were primarily competing answers to the single question of what the mind…
- Structuralism asked what consciousness is made of; functionalism asked what consciousness is for. Why is it a…