AP PSYCHOLOGY

RESEARCH METHODS THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

THE NEED FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Structuralism
A
Self reporting sensations
B
Function and purpose of behaviours
C
How behaviours and mental processes evolved
D
Computer mind analogy
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A theoretical approach developed by Wilhelm Wundt, structuralism is a theory that claimed sensations as individual elements that add up to create perceptions. Wundt was also known as the establisher of the first scientific psychology laboratory in Germany in the year 1879.

Detailed explanation-2: -Structuralism is a mode of knowledge of nature and human life that is interested in relationships rather than individual objects or, alternatively, where objects are defined by the set of relationships of which they are part and not by the qualities possessed by them taken in isolation.

Detailed explanation-3: -(1) Structuralism attempts to analyze world as a production of ideas. (2) It assumes that the world has a logical pattern. ADVERTISEMENTS: (3) There is death of the subject, that is, the individual in structural analyses is dead.

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