Structuralist and Functionalist Schools of Thought

Structuralist and Functionalist Schools of Thought
Introduction
Structuralism and functionalism played an important role in the early development of psychology. Since any scientific point of view is a systematic approach to the corresponding scientific discipline, these areas have become competing psychological schools. This assignment aims to discuss the way functionalist and structuralist schools of thought affect modern psychology as a science and its implications for today's psychology.
Discussion
The founder of the structural school of psychology is E. Titchener (1867-1936). Titchener was a follower of W. Wundt, and structuralism as a direction in psychology is a direct embodiment of Wundt's ideas. Structuralists believe that the primary function of psychology is experimental research of the consciousness structure (Marques, 2021). The study of consciousness as a structure requires searching for the initial elements of consciousness and the connections between them. The efforts of the Titchener School were directed primarily to the search for elements of the psyche, which was identified with consciousness.
The main questions that Titchener tried to explore are the following:
1 What is an element of the psyche?
2 How are these elements combined, synthesizing the psyche?
3 Why are they combined in this way and not otherwise?
The third question Titchener illuminated through the explanation of mental processes in terms of parallel physiological processes (Marques, 2021). The scientist interprets consciousness as a general result of the individual's experience, which exists at a certain time.
According to Titchener, psychology is the science of experience, which depends on the subject, this experience acquires (Ormerod, 2020). A person acquires experience through introspection (introspection), which he must train for.
On the other hand,...