In psychology there have been many schools of thought

Final Project In psychology there have been many schools of thought. The main ones to have emerged are structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, Gestalt psychology and psychoanalysis. Some of these have withstood the test of time, and are still in use today in modern psychology, while others have laid the foundation of modern psychology. Wilhelm Wundt is the founder of psychology as a formal academic discipline (Schultz, 2011, p. 66) Because of his ideas and the worked that he did in experimental psychology two main schools of thought prevailed, experimental psychology founder by Wundt and structuralism founder by Wundt’s student E.B. Titchener. Structuralism focused on the mental elements of contents, and their mechanical linking through the process of association, but did not use the doctrine of apperception that Wundt taught (Schultz, 2011 p. 88). Structuralism was prominent in the United States for about two decades until the death of Titchener in 1927(Schultz, 2011 p. 88). Titchener had his subject matter, conscious experience was clearly defined. His research methods, was based on observation, experimentation, and measurement. Because consciousness can only be perceived by the person having the conscious experience, the best method for studying that experience and that subject matter was some form of self-observation (Schultz, 2011 p. 100). Functionalism is a system of psychology that concerns with the main as it is used in an organism’s adaptation to its environment. Because Charles Darwin notion of evolution, he changed the focus of psychology from the structure of consciousness to its functions (Schultz, 2011 p. 103). Functionalism is the doctrine that makes something a thought, desire, or other type of mental state that does not depends on its internal constitution but on its function or the role that it plays in cognitive psychology (Levin, 2010). Functionalism studied the mind not from the standpoint of its composition