Practice question · True or false
Structuralism and functionalism were primarily competing answers to the single question of what the mind contains.
Hints
- Were they answering the same question, or different questions?
- One asked what the mind is made of; the other asked what it is for.
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False
Why
False. The schools asked DIFFERENT questions - structuralism 'what is the mind made of?' and functionalism 'what is the mind for?' - not competing answers to one question. Treating them as rivals over the same facts is the named pitfall.
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