Applied Psychology: How Did Functionalism Change Things?

Seminar five occurred on Sunday March Sixth of twenty sixteen, which I missed. The seminar five discussion begin by asking how did functionalism change things? Functionalism help push applied psychology such as clinical, school psychology, and I/O psychology. Before Applied Psychology was such idea psychologists were only concerned with structuralism, which dealt with perception and things of that nature. After discussing the drastic shift from structuralism to functionalism Professor Hawf discuss how the field of psychology exploded in the Americas when more PhD programs were established, so the field of psychology become a global phenomenon. Who birthed the field of Applied psychology? Harry Hollngworth was employed to investigate the effects of caffeine on humans regarding Cola.
Why is proving that the field of applied psychology was legit important? During the time of Hollingworth many newly awarded PhD students were having such a hard time finding jobs, so after the Coca Cola case many believed in the idea of going outside academia and the field of research. Former researchers and newly PhD graduates noticed other careers that desperately needed to be researched and innovated, so newly forms of psychology were created such as school psychology that at the time was an untapped