LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

STRUCTURALISM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Titchener’s focus was on the synthesis of elements of consciousness into higher-order cognitive processes.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Titchener’s theory began with the question of what each element of the mind is. He concluded from his research that there were three types of mental elements constituting conscious experience: Sensations (elements of perceptions), Images (elements of ideas), and affections (elements of emotions).

Detailed explanation-2: -Titchener proposed 3 elementary states of consciousness: Sensations (sights, sounds, tastes), Images (components of thoughts), and Affections (components of emotions).

Detailed explanation-3: -Titchener’s structuralism used analytical introspection as its primary method for most of its existence to reduce complex mental states to the simplest elemental mental processes that appear in consciousness. It explained those processes in terms of the physiological processes of the organism.

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