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Functionalism

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Functionalism asked what mental processes are for — how consciousness helps an organism adapt to its environment.

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William James treated habit as useful rather than as an element, asking what a habit does for the person who has it.

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Functionalism is a question, not a school of measurement. It reframed psychology's subject without settling its method.

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