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William James

Strengths and Weaknesses

The Father of Functionalism

  • Structuralism vs Functionalism (Grice, 2010)

Weaknesses

Strengths

  • William James wrote the first textbook in psychology
  • Functionalism findings are subjective
  • Studied living organisms as they adapt to their environment
  • the results of the research cannot be measured objectively
  • Offered an alternative approach for looking at the mind
  • Functionalism research are not easily testable

Contribution to Psychology

  • Father of functionalism (Ferriri, 2006)
  • Father of American psychology (Oakley, 1995)
  • Principles of Psychology (Wozniak, 1999)

Background

1. The stream of consciousness and the self

  • Born in New York on January 11, 1842
  • Entered Harvard school of Medicine in 1864
  • Received his M.D degree in 1869
  • Got married in 1878 and had five children
  • In 1890 , published " The principles of Psychology"
  • Resigned form Harvard and published "Pragmatism: A New for Some old Ways of Thinking"
  • Died on August 26, 1910 (Goodman, 2012)

2. Sensation, Perception, Imagination, and belief

Research and Experiments

3. Emotion and Will (Pomerlean, 2011)

  • William James Studied in Germany

William James' viewpoints

  • Research on sensation and perception
  • Theory of consciousness
  • Theory of emotion (Bjork, 1983)
  • William James research focus on the mind
  • The mental state
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