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    John Dewey and James R. Angell were influential American psychologists who developed the philosophical movement of functionalism. Dewey believed that psychology, pedagogy, and educational psychology were interrelated. He viewed ideas as tools for solving environmental problems. Angell helped establish functional psychology at the University of Chicago and defined it as the psychology of mental operations, consciousness' utility, and psychophysics. Both Dewey and Angell viewed psychology as understanding how the mind functions within its natural environment.

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    Functionalism: John

    Dewey and James R.


    Angell
    By: Angeline May S. Raymundo
    John Dewey (1859-1952)

     Founder of the philosophical movement


    called Pragmatism.
     He believed that the disciplines of
    psychology, pedagogy and psychology
    should be understood as closely
    interrelated.
     Aneducational reformer and a pioneer in
    the field of educational psychology.
    John Dewey (1859-1952)

     "Intrumentalist theory of knowledge" - ideas are seen to


    exist primarily as instruments for the solution of problems
    encountered in the environment.
     Dewey's functionlism ws influenced by Charkes Darwin's
    theory of evolution and ideas of William James.
     His paper in 1896 entitled, "The Reflex Arc Concept in
    Psychology," is generally considered as the first major
    statement establishing the functionalist school.
    John Dewey (1859-1952)

     He considered Wundt's nd Titchener's approach as flawed


    because it ignored both the continuity of human behavior
    and its significance in terms of adaptation. In contrast,
    functionalism sought to consider the total organism as it
    functioned in the environment (active perceiver rather
    than a passive receiver of stimuli)
    John Dewey (1859-1952)

     Three characteristics central to his philosophical project:


    1. Precarious - event thatsomehow makes an ongoing
    experience problematic
    2. Histories - process of change with an identifuble
    outcome
    3. Ends - deliberately constructed outcome if a history.
    John Dewey (1859-1952)
     -The construction of good - a person confronted by a
    spontaneous intrusion of the precarious world into the
    seemingly steady course of his life will identify and
    analyze the constituents of his particular situation and
    then consider what changes he might introduce in order to
    produce a "consummatory end"
    John Dewey (1859-1952)
     Instrumentalism - knowledge results from discernment of
    correlations between events, or processes of change.
    Ideas empower people to direct natural events.
     "Democracy as a way of life"
    James R. Angell (1869-1949)

     He graduated from University of Michigan.


     He never received his PhD but excelled on becoming the
    first person to head Chicago's new department of
    psychology. Then was elected as the president of the APA.
    James R. Angell (1869-1949)

     His presidential speech is known as the best description of


    functional psychology ever written.
     He explained functionalism contrasting Titchener's
    Structuralism. He defined funtional psychology in three
    ways:
    1. Psychology of Mental Operations
    2. Psychology of the utility of consciousness
    3. Psychophysics
     References:
     Hunter, W.S. (1951). James Rowland Angell. A biographical
    Memoir. National Academy of Sciences. Washington, DC.
     Nolen, J. (2014).Functionalism. Britannica. Retrieved
    from:
    https://www.britannica.com/science/functionalism-
    psychology
     Gouinlock, J. (2019). John Dewey. Britannica. Retrieved
    from:https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-
    Dewey#ref1048576
     (2019). Angell, James Rowland. International Encyclopedia
    of the Social Sciences. Retrieved from:
    https://www.encyclopedia.com/socialsciences/applied-
    and-social-sciences-magazines/angell-james-rowland

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