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FUNCTIONALISM [6 records]

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Record 1 2000-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour
DEF

In Carr's system of functionalism, the basic unit of behavior involving a motivating stimulus and a sensory situation leading the animal to make responses which reinforce behavior leading to a goal and thus satisfying the motivating condition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement humain

Spanish

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Record 2 1995-08-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Design
OBS

Functionalism : A philosophy or architectural design, emerging in the 20th century, asserting that the form of a building should follow its function, reveal its structure, and express the nature of the material.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conception architecturale
DEF

Conception et production de constructions dans lesquelles les formes et articulations formelles sont censées répondre totalement et seulement aux exigences fonctionnelles.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Diseño arquitectónico
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Record 3 1988-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Philosophy (General)
CONT

The fact that an organism has consciousness at all means that there is something it is like to be that organism in that an organism has conscious mental states. Intentionalism, functionalism, physicalism, as well as reductionism, all fail to capture the subjection character of experience.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Philosophie (Généralités)
OBS

Dérivé de "intentionnalité".

Spanish

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Record 4 1988-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

A standard objection to functionalism : we could be in such and such a state, defined functionally, but feel quite different things at the same time, this being in a quite different mental state as far as the qualitative aspects of our feelings are concerned.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
OBS

Voir "expérientiel".

Spanish

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Record 5 1986-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
CONT

Brunswik's theory, well known by its central "lens model", is a probabilistic functionalism. The lens model, which explicates the various relationships between and among distal, proximal and central variables, has been modified several time... for studying the "interaction between the objective situation and a person's construction of the situation".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
OBS

Modèles probabilistes de la perception : E. Brunswik : Incertitude du milieu : (Dans) le système sujet-environnement, les indices dont nous disposons ne nous donnent que des probabilités, jamais des certitudes.

Spanish

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Record 6 1984-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology (General)
  • Anthropology
CONT

structural-functional analysis. A methodological and theoretical framework for the analysis of social phenomena in terms of both the structure of the society and the functional relation of its parts.... Structural-functionalism is essentially synonymous with functionalism. However, the term structural-functionalism usually implies a greater emphasis on the formalistic analysis of the structural aspects of society and social systems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie (Généralités)
  • Anthropologie
CONT

structuro-fonctionnalisme. La théorie du système social de Parsons repose sur deux types d'analyse, l'une structurelle et l'autre fonctionnelle, qui spécifient dans les deux cas le point de vue de l'action et celui du système social. Ces analyses présentent à la fois un aspect statique et un aspect dynamique.

Spanish

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