Why Was the Perspective Followed by Wilhelm Wundt and His

question 197

Multiple Choice

Why was the perspective followed by Wilhelm Wundt and his followers called structuralism?

• A) They wanted to identify the major brain structures.
• B) Their primary goal was to understand the physiology of the mind.
• C) They focused their efforts on analyzing the elements of the nervous system.
• D) Their primary focus was on describing the structure of conscious experience.

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