Faculty Psychology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faculty psychology views the mind as a collection of faculties assigned to specific mental tasks. Faculty psychology deals with understanding how the mind works and what capabilities humans have. Francis Bacon's Five Functions (Understanding, Reason, Imagination, Appetite, and Will) created the basis of faculty psychology. Each of these functions represent a faculty of the mind; in other words, each function acts as a cog, all working together to make the entire system perform. This concept was popular with mainly medieval scholastic Theologians. Regardless of its popularity peaking in medieval times, faculty psychology served as a basis for modern psychology.