RESEARCH METHODS THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
THE NEED FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
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1.) what do you get from behaving this way? 2.) What do you avoid from behaving this way?
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1.) who were you trying to hurt? 2.) what can you do to better your choices?
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1.) why did you behave this way? 2.) where you trying to hurt yourself or someone else?
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1.) what do you feel in this moment? 2.) do you regret it?
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Detailed explanation-1: -Functionalism is a theory about the nature of mental states. According to functionalism, mental states are identified by what they do rather than by what they are made of. This can be understood by thinking about artifacts like mousetraps and keys.
Detailed explanation-2: -Functionalism is a psychological philosophy that describes the mind as a functional tool that allows us to adapt to our environments. It posits that our mental states and behaviors are survival mechanisms, in line with our inherent biological goals.
Detailed explanation-3: -Given this history, it is helpful to think of functionalist theories as belonging to one of three major strains-“machine functionalism”, “psychofunctionalism” and “analytic functionalism”-and to see them as emerging, respectively, from early AI theories, empirical behaviorism, and logical behaviorism.
Detailed explanation-4: -The basic objection to a functionalist account of subjective colour, or of any qualitative experience, is that it just seems intuitively plausible that functional red and subjective red could come apart. The mismatch goes in both directions.