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Unit 4: Structuralism and Functionalism Chat until class starts

Assignments Reading: Chapters 5-6 of your textbook and website on evolutionary factors impact on social behavior. This website can be found under the Unit 4 reading page Seminar: Attend the seminar or complete the option 2 assignment Discussion: Answer the two discussion questions and provide 2 responses to student posts Project: Complete the Unit 4 Project

Edward Titchener ( ) Student of Wundt Started largest doctoral program in the U.S. at Cornell University Published over 60 articles and supervised 50 doctoral dissertations Great teacher and dramatic lectures Women not allowed at Experimentalist meetings, but he encouraged advancement in psychology Margaret Floyd Washburn was first woman to earn doctoral degree in psychology – Titchener was her advisor

Edward Titchener’s Psychology Purpose of psychology is to describe conscious experience Believed structural psychology is pure science and not applicable Introspection- observers trained to describe elements of conscious Stimulus Error: Mental process (e.g., color) being confused with object/stimulus (e.g., apple)that was observed Criticisms and contributions of Structuralism

Old and New Psychology America in the early 1900’s – how America’s psychology differed from German view Old Psychology: Puritan’s brought medieval faculty psychology to America Teaching of moral character Early American Protestant Universities New Psychology (Functionalism) Civil War turned the tide New Psychology Focus on socially useful studies of the whole person New psychology was compatible with modern Darwinian biology Why did America embrace Evolutionary theory?

Charles Darwin ( ) Personal Voyage of the Beagle ( ) Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Natural Selection and Struggle for Survival Fitness and Adaptive Features Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace Darwin and “Origin of Species” Darwin’s Influence on Psychology

Measuring Intelligence and Animal Psychology Sir Francis Galton Measuring Intelligence Statistics Mental Imagery Eugenics Movement Animal Psychology and Influence on Current Psychology

References Leahey, T.H. (2004). A history of psychology: Main currents in psychological thought (6 th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Schultz, D.P. & Schultz, S.E. (2008). A history of modern psychology (9 th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.