AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Titchener’s theory began with the question of what each element of the mind is. He concluded from his research that there were three types of mental elements constituting conscious experience: Sensations (elements of perceptions), Images (elements of ideas), and affections (elements of emotions).

Detailed explanation-2: -Wilhelm Wundt was a structuralist-a scientist who studies the basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences. He developed a method of self observation called introspection to collect information about the mind. Participants reported their thoughts and feelings.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The term is typically identified with the systematic psychology of Edward Bradford Titchener (1867–1927). 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.