AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Structuralism is widely regarded as the first school of thought in psychology. This outlook focused on breaking down mental processes into the most basic components. Major thinkers associated with structuralism include Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener.

Detailed explanation-2: -Titchener’s structuralism used analytical introspection as its primary method for most of its existence to reduce complex mental states to the simplest elemental mental processes that appear in consciousness. It explained those processes in terms of the physiological processes of the organism.

Detailed explanation-3: -Titchener believed that all thoughts can be broken down to basic elements, specifically, sensations. Titchener would say that when you identified the object, you put together memories of sensations from your past (color, shape, texture, smell, and taste) and hence you deduced the object was an apple.

Detailed explanation-4: -Structuralism proposes that the structure of conscious experience could be understood by analyzing the basic elements of thoughts and sensations. Structuralism is considered the first school of thought in psychology, and was established in Germany by Wilhelm Wundt, and mainly associated with Edward B. Titchener.

Detailed explanation-5: -He continued to expound Wundt’s views after his arrival at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (1892), where he became professor of psychology (1895–1927). From 1898 Titchener was the foremost exponent of structural psychology, which concerns itself with the components and arrangement of mental states and processes.