PSYCHOLOGY- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STRUCTURALISM AND FUNCTIONALISM (METHOD OF STUDY)

PSYCHOLOGY- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STRUCTURALISM AND FUNCTIONALISM (METHOD OF STUDY)

STRUCTURALISM

The study of the essential components that serve as the bedrock of conscious experience is the focus of the structuralist school of psychology. This viewpoint highlights the underlying components of conscious experience and deconstructs its structural aspects into things like sensations, feelings, and images, among other things. However, we might examine the minor components that support the mind rather than studying the stimulus as it is.

For instance, if someone touches a hot object or a fire, their skin feels warm before they feel any pain, even if their foot burns. It would be a structural approach if we each focused on something separately.

FUNCTIONALISM

William James and Cattell, two psychologists from the US, proposed it. As a result, it claims that functionalism is the theory of the nature of mental states. The traditional assumption that mental states are internal states of thought is retained by functionalism, which holds that mental states are defined by what they do rather than by what they are comprised of. READ MORE…