<aside> 💡 Lecture Topic: Structuralism & Functionalism

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📅 Date: September 15, 2023

https://trentu.yuja.com/V/Video?v=888063&node=4857748&a=101328524&autoplay=1

Week 2 Live Lecture Notes.pdf

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Today’s Agenda

• Psychology as the study of Human Consciousness
  • What is consciousness?

• Structuralism
  • Edward B. Titchener - Early Life & Career
  • Titchener Comes to America
  • Titchener’s Structuralism
  • The Experimentalists
  • Was Titchener a Misogynist?

• Functionalism
  • The American Context - the “Gilded” Age of Industrialism
  • Social Darwinism
  • American Functionalism (Time Permitting)

Structuralism vs. Functionalism

Two approaches to answering the question:

How can we best understand Human Consciousness?