1. William James
He was a philosopher and psychologist, but was most well known in the field of psychology for developing the philosophy of pragmatism, or the functionalist theory: "Theory of mental life and behavior that is concerned with how an organism uses its perceptual abilities to function in its environment." ... James grasped the idea of the functionalist theory because he disagreed with Wilhelm Wundt's "atoms of experience". ... Thus becoming the functionalist theory of mental life and behavior and the conclusions he came to with relating to only human life merely scratches the surface...
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