STRUCTUTALISM
Major thinkers associated with Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener
This outlook focused on breaking down mental processes into the most basic components. The focus of structuralism was on reducing mental processes down into their most basic elements. The structuralists used techniques such as introspection to analyze the inner processes of the human mind.
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