What Was American Functionalist Psychology?
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Great! I'm teaching on this today in my psych 101 class. I like the bat in the background of some of the scenes lol. Only suggestion would be to use a tripod so it doesn't bounce.
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thank for the information and the video , i have read it in my test books and you made more clear for mi^^
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Why American? What do Pierce, Dewey, Baldwin, James, etc... all have in common?
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great video, thank you! you help me to understand American Functionalist Psychology.
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nice!
micxyzify 5 months ago
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Thanks!
christoyork 5 months ago
why american. your overly proud of america
caspargrindcore 2 years ago
No, actually I'm in Canada. It is "American Functionalism" because it was a form of functionalism (the term has been used many times by many movements in many sciences) that originated in the US. The main thing I wished to distinguish it from was "computational functionalism" which was (is?) an unrelated late-20th-century movement in cognitive science.
christoyork 2 years ago
Great Video. Its a nice explanation of Functionalism and its roots in Darwinism.
I especially liked the part about connecting the Metaphysical Club to Darwin via Chauncey Wright
One question I've had for a long time is why they called their group the Metaphysical Club when they seemed to care very little about Metaphysics.
Keep the videos coming.
aikoaiko1 3 years ago 3
It was a bit of a joke among the members precisely because they were all rather suspicious of traditional (Idealist) metaphysics.
christoyork 3 years ago