Functional psychology

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Structuralism Structuralism was the foremost school of thought in the history of psychology. Structuralism seeks to understand the structure, that is, the configuration of components of the mind and its perceptions by analyzing those perceptions into their constituent components e.g. affection, attention, memory, sensation and so on. Structuralists were interested in deconstructing the mind into its elementary components and how those elementary components work together to create the mind.…

Treatment Summary Background and presenting problem The client, a 33 year old Caucasian female, received treatment at an outpatient Psychology Training Clinic over the course of 5 months. Developmentally, the client was from a low SES family of 6 and her parents were separated when she was very young. The client described a pattern of inconsistent employment history throughout adulthood. At the time of treatment, the client had started her graduate studies in performance arts and had a graduate…

undesirable behaviour that linked with health. There are six basic perspectives that influence the psychologist’s study. One of the most important perspectives is biological psychology. This field of psychology is a powerful energy in modern society and its influence of human and animal behaviour. In other words, biological psychology is emphasis on behaviour that result of chemical and biological processes within brain and nervous system. Richard Arvey and Zhang Zhen (2013) mentioned that…

together in other to truly understand what is happening. Secondly, greater things happen when playing an instrument and by observing the brain of the people who play a musical instrument the brain is like going through a workout i.e. all the functional activities of the brain is being used. The human brain is the control center of the body. The brain cerebellum is underneath the cerebrum and it controls coordination and balance,…

function and are necessary for survival of that society. Functionalism is abstract stage between the physical performance and behavioral output. The main suggestion of functionalism is that mental state (pain, desire, belief) are comprised by their functional role only. According to Functionalism the crucial features of a mental state is the set of casual relations it bears to environmental effect on the body, mental state and bodily behavior. Pain for example, characteristically results from…

Psychologist Karen Horney once said, “The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men,” (Karen Horney Quotes). She was Psychoanalyst with many contributions to psychology. She is best known for her work in Feminine Psychology, her Theory of Neurotic Needs, and for her involvement in Neo-Freudian Psychology, (Cherry). She was born on September 16th, in 1885 in Germany, in a village outside of Hamburg, to Clotilde and Berndt Danielson. Her…

that there is something mental; to deny materialism is to say that there exist non-material entities. One way to deny materialism is to say that mind (or ideas/beliefs) are non-material entities. 2. Functionalism claims that mental contents are functional. The negation of it is to say that mental states are defined introspectively instead of causally/functionally. o NOTE1: Ontology is supposed to be neutral between materialism and non-materialism. Non-material ontology can say that some…

Sociological jurisprudence encompasses all the aspects of the interactions between law and society. There are innumerable connections between law and society: every branch of human learning, from physics, chemistry and medicine to philosophy, religion and psychology, produces knowledge about law and society. Sociology borrows from all these fields and sociological jurisprudence borrows form sociology. Of all the branches of learning, social sciences had the most influence, which was almost…

Method Design This experiment was a 3 x 2 mixed factorial design. The first independent variable had 3 levels representing participant training (psychiatry, psychology and no training) x the second independent variable, which had two levels representing conceptualization of depression (biological conceptualization and psychological conceptualization). The dependent variable of the study was participants’ rated likelihood of recovery from depression for affected individuals (described in…