Preface

Called to the Profession: A Tribute to Professor Paul Whitely by James J. Whalen

The Functionalists' Perspective

Introduction: Modern Psychology and the Early Functionalism by Mark Wagner and D. Alfred Owens

The Role of the Functionalist School in the Growth of Psychology by Herschel W. Leibowitz

Functionalism Then and Now by Stephen B. Wilcox

Psychological Processes as Biological Phenomena

Comparative Psychology: The Last Bastion of a Compleat Functionalism by Roger K. R. Thompson and Jack Demarest

Functional Influences on Clinical Neuropsychology by Eugene R. Wist

Functionalism and Psychophysiology by Robert M. Stern

Biochemical Determinants of Functional Nervous Development by Joanne M. Bell

The Psychology of Mental Life

Functionalism and the Growth of Developmental Psychology by Roberta Ferrara

Functionalist Themes in Research on Memory, Learning, and Cognition in Older Adults by Martin D. Murphy and Timothy L. Snyder

A Functionalist View of Factor Analysis by John J. McArdle and Richard S. Lehman

James Gibson, Psychologist, and Ernie Gehr, Filmmaker: A Case of Conceptual Parallelism Between Science and Art by Robert Becklen

Psychology of Social Interactions

Functionalism and Social Psychology by Melvin Manis and Janet Landman

Research on Communal and Exchange Relartionships Viewed from a Functionalist Perspective by Margaret S. Clark

The Influence of Environmental Context on the Behavioral Effects of Smoked Marijuana by Richard W. Foltin

Epilogue and Retrospective

Epilogue: Is All Psychology Functional Psychology?

A New Name for an Old Idea? A Student of Harvey Carr Reflects by Paul L. Whitely

Bibliography

Index