Psychology · History & Schools of Psychology
A topic within History & Schools of Psychology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
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Edward B. Titchener
Argues psychology's first task is to analyse consciousness into its basic elements by trained introspection, before asking what those elements are for - the structuralist programme functionalism was defined against.
link checked 17 Sept 2026James Rowland Angell
Argues psychology should study what mental processes do for the organism's adaptation to its environment, not just what consciousness is made of, setting functionalism against Titchener's structuralist programme.
link checked 17 Sept 2026