What is stucturalism?

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Structuralism was the first school of psychology and focused on

breaking down mental processes into the most basic components.

Researchers tried to understand the basic elements of consciousness

using a method known as introspection. Wilhelm Wundt, founder of

the first psychology lab, was an advocate of this position and is

often considered the founder of structuralism, despite the fact

that it was his student, Edward B. Titchener who first coined the

term to describe this school of thought.

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While Wundt's work helped to establish psychology as a separate

science and contributed methods to experimental psychology and

Titchener development of structuralism helped establish the very

first "school" of psychology, the structuralism did not last long

beyond Titchener's death.