Psychological philosophy that considers mental life and behaviour in terms of active adaptation to the person's environment.
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Examples for "functionalism"
Examples for "functionalism"
1In such phrases, we grasp the essential difference between formalism and functionalism.
2Darwinian functionalism works by local adaptation of integral organisms to immediate environments.
3Using Paley's own device of analogy to machines, Owen undermines functionalism from within.
4The plainness of the whole lent it gravity and a certain functionalism which was not inappropriate.
5However, Eimer chose Lamarckism as the preferred external potentiator for his "brand" of functionalism.
1Anthropology, ethnology, sociology, physical and functional psychology, came to the front.
Translations for functional psychology