e likWhat is Structuralism and Functionalism?
Structuralism and functionalism are mentalisms; this means the mind is the subject of every study. Functionalism is concerned with how the mind functions, and therefore also used the method of introspection. Functionalists studied the mind not from the standpoint of its composition-its mental elements of structure-but rather as a conglomerate or accumulation of functions and processes that lead to practical consequences in the real world, because it lacked a clear definition, it was subjected to the same problematic aspects of structuralism. The subject agreement and reliability of structuralism was not consistent with mainstream views of experimental psychologists today.
Structuralism asked what happens when an organism does something, and functionalism asked how and why.
Functionalism Today The broad position of functionalism can be articulated in many different varieties. Today functionalism is dedicated to the experimental method. By today’s scientific standards, the experimental methods used to study the structures of the mind were too subjective—the use of introspection led to a lack of reliability in results. The first formulation of a functionalist theory of mind was put forth by Hilary Putnam. This is now called machine-state functionalism. This was inspired by the analogies which Putnam and others noted between the mind and the theoretical "machines" or computers capable of computing any given algorithm which were developed by Alan Turing (called Universal Turing machines). Today the counter, register and random-access machines and their sire the Turing machine continue to be the models of choice for theorists investigating questions in the theory of computation.

Structuralism Today
Today structuralism is criticized for being ahistorical and for favoring deterministic structural forces over the ability