AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Structuralism in psychology (also structural psychology) is a theory of consciousness developed by Wilhelm Wundt and his student Edward Bradford Titchener. This theory was challenged in the 20th century.

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: -While he is often described as an apostle of Wundt’s, Titchener’s ideas differed from those of his mentor. He utilized Wundt’s method of introspection but under much more stringent guidelines.

Detailed explanation-4: -Edward Bradford Titchener (1867 – 1927) was an Englishman and a British scholar. He was a student of Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig, Germany, before becoming a professor of psychology and founding the first psychology laboratory in the United States at Cornell University.

Detailed explanation-5: -Structuralism was founded by Wilhelm Wundt, who used controlled methods, such as introspection, to break down consciousness to its basic elements without sacrificing any of the properties of the whole. Structuralism was further developed by Wundt’s student, Edward B. Titchener.