You will prepare and submit a term paper on History of Psychology: Functionalism, Behavioralism, Operationalism and Cognitive Theory. Your paper should be a minimum of 750 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on History of Psychology: Functionalism, Behavioralism, Operationalism and Cognitive Theory. Your paper should be a minimum of 750 words in length. With the help of a solid intellectual foundation in the form of his upbringing, he was able to write a number of books of various topics ranging from educational psychology, psychology related to religion and mysticism. the area of expertise continue. He was a prominent supporter of functionalism in his era and believed that his competitors and fellow colleagues should narrow down their approach of appraising theories if only they can be tested. The biggest contribution towards the world of psychology would be the book that was written in 12 years, by the name of "Principles of Psychology".

Another prominent supporter of functionalism was Edward Thorndike, who was another American Psychologist based in Columbia University. He laid the foundations for the educational psychology, and is known for introducing many theories which are being used to this date. an example would be that of Thorndike's Theory of Learning (Thomas, 2004).

Herman Ebbinghaus is another contributor to behavior and psychology. He was a German Psychologist and pioneered research in memory and on the nature of psychology. Like all others mentioned, this scientist also disregarded experimental psychology and believed that the way to measure psychology would be introspection.