AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -structuralism, in psychology, a systematic movement founded in Germany by Wilhelm Wundt and mainly identified with Edward B. Titchener.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Edward Titchener brought and developed Wundt’s ideas into the United States. Titchener spoke in 1898 of “structural standpoint", defining structuralism as a neutral observational approach based on introspection, and also adopting the elementaristic approach of building up a whole from its basic elements.

Detailed explanation-4: -Titchener is best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the mind: structuralism. After becoming a professor at Cornell University, he created the largest doctoral program at that time in the United States.

Detailed explanation-5: -Edward Bradford Titchener was a student of Wilhelm Wundt and is often credited with introducing the structuralist school of thought. While Wundt is sometimes identified as the founder of structuralism, Titchener theories differed in important ways from Wundt’s.