One of Psychology’s First Schools of Thought
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Structuralism is considered the firstschool of thought in psychology.
It involved breaking down the mind into the smallest possible parts and analyzing each one.
Although, one of his students also contributed greatly to this school of thought.
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Titchener actually changed much of what Wundt taught.
Titchener decided to scrap Wundt’s brand of psychological study.
Titchener did this because conscious experiences aren’t as easy to control in an experiment as behavior is.
Rather than focusing on obtaining quantitative measurements, Titchener prioritized observation and analysis.
He spent the bulk of his career devoted to this task.
He was extremely prolific, publishing 216 books and papers during his lifetime.
Today, Ticheners’s work is rarely mentioned outside of a purely historical context.
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