NTIFICPARADIGMOFFUNCTIONFUNCTIONALMODEL.pptVIP

* SCIENCE ADMINISTRATION LECTURE 36 SCIENTIFIC PARADIGM OF FUNCTION: FUNCTIONAL MODEL OF THE MIND ILLUSTRATIONS: Schools of Psychology FREDERICK BETZ PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY We have described the current state of research on localization of functions in the mind. But this is a mechanistic description of where reasoning processes occur in the brain. In addition to a mechanistic locale map of the mind, one also needs a functional map of the reasoning of the mind (such as we saw in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason). To create such a functional map (as opposed to a locale map) of the brain, one needs to assemble the different psychological processes of the mind: consciousness, sub-consciousness, will, etc. We can show how this can be done in the following functional map of the mind. One can begin to functionally map the concept of human mind by taking the simplest model in modern psychology, the Stimulus-Response (S-R) model. This partitions the mental world into a world and mind. The mind is stimulated (perceives) objects in the world and responds by taking action on nature in the world. Now the connection of Stimulus (Perception) to Response (Action) is created by a sequence of mental processes of the mind. STIMULUS-RESPONSE MODEL -- Perception of the World and Action in the World. The Stimulus-Response (SR) model of the mind traces back to the founder of modern psychology, Wilhelm Wundt. Wundt established an experimental approach to the study of psychology. William James later emphasized that the SR model need not be a direct physiological connection between stimulus and response, but the response can be mediated by learning. Wundt and James are sometimes called the founders of modern psychology. Later, Carl Jung introduced the idea that some personality types are primarily sensitive to external stimulus-inputs from the world (extroverts) and some to internal stimulus-inputs from the self (introverts). Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1930) was