AP PSYCHOLOGY

PSYCHOLOGYS HISTORY APPROACHES

EARLY APPROACHES OF PSYCHOLOGY

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

Which early approach trained subjects to describe their conscious experience to identify the elements of thought?

A	Structuralism
B	Functionalism
C	Gestalt
D	Psychoanalytic

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Structuralism was the first school of psychology and focused on breaking down mental processes into the most basic components. Researchers tried to understand the basic elements of consciousness using a method known as introspection.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Structuralism as a school of psychology seeks to analyze the adult mind (the total sum of experience from birth to the present) in terms of the simplest definable components and then to find how these components fit together to form more complex experiences as well as how they correlate to physical events.

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