AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -1 It was his student, Edward B. Titchener, who invented the term structuralism. Though Titchener is usually the one credited with the establishment of structuralism and bringing the ideas to America, the ideas started with Wundt. Titchener actually changed much of what Wundt taught.

Detailed explanation-2: -Titchener’s effect on the history of psychology, as it is taught in classrooms, was partially the work of his student Edwin Boring.

Detailed explanation-3: -structuralism, in psychology, a systematic movement founded in Germany by Wilhelm Wundt and mainly identified with Edward B. Titchener.

Detailed explanation-4: -The school of psychology founded by Wundt is known as voluntarism, the process of organizing the mind. Wundt’s theory was developed and promoted by his one-time student, Edward Titchener (1898), who described his system as Structuralism, or the analysis of the basic elements that constitute the mind.