Patricia M Mota Bello

PSICOLOGÍA I PSYC_121-O

The structuralist tradition and the

principles of scientific psychology

Universidad Ana G Mendez Tampa Bay

Campus
Dr: Marta E Castillo

August 23, 2022

Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener was the
founder of structuralist psychology, a
psychological trend of a theoretical and
methodological nature. It focused on the
analysis of mental processes through
introspection. emerged during the early years of
the 20th century.
A process was carried out with the aim of
analyzing the mind. For this, they relied mainly
on the introspective method and how these come
together to form complex processes.
There is debate about whether the founding Structural psychology proposes that we can
of structural psychology should be attributed
understand the structure of mental
to Wundt or to Titchener. Although the
central ideas of this psychological processes through the definition and
orientation come from Wundt, it was categorization of the elements that make up
Titchener who systematized, extended and the psyche,
popularized his proposals in the United
States,

Titchener stated that consciousness (or the mind)
is made up of three types of phenomena:
sensations, affects, and images. By uniting
several processes of each of them, complexes of
the same class appear.
Titchener's structuralist psychology was based on
the use of the introspective method, by which a
disorder plays the role of observer and descriptor
of its own psychological processes. In fact, it is
possible to obtain reliable information about the
nature of the mind through introspection and self-
knowledge
2 streams emerged by the demand
for psychological science: -
Structuralism and - Functionalism.
That later it was believed that it
would be displaced by -Behaviorism,
or that it is a logical and effective
functionalism.
Functionalism was supported by
biological and philosophical
evolutionism
functionalism in psychology are
adaptation, inheritance of
evolutionary theory, and the study of
habits as fundamental elements