reflection and post for 2/19

Here's a pretty good site that gives a basic breakdown of structuralism and functionalism.

http://psychology.about.com/od/historyofpsychology/a/structuralism.htm

As we were discussing the differences between functionalism and structuralism I wondered why all the psychologists of the time were taking such firm positions one way or another. It seems to me that both schools of thought make sense and could each provide a lot of benefits to the overall study of psychology. I found it a little funny that people would get defensive about their position and spent so much time trying to show why their school of thought was better than the other. In a lot of my classes whenever we have learned about conflicting views the class generally comes to the conclusion that you can take a little from each view and create a hybrid version that can benefit all of us. The more I read about these two schools of thought the more I realized that each has a lot to offer and it is great that these great minds of psychology helped further both views while psychology was so new as a science. I really felt like their had to be someone who decided to try and combine both views but our books did not mention it, hopefully this will come up in further readings because I would be very interested to see how successful they were and the response they got from their peers.