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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Definitions:

Alternative Hypothesis

A hypothesis used in hypothesis testing that proposes there is a significant difference between the observed data and the null hypothesis.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sample distribution of a statistic, used to estimate the accuracy of the sample mean as a predictor of the population mean.

Sample Proportion

The fraction or percentage of the sample that represents part of a particular category or characteristic of interest.

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis that assumes no significant difference or effect in the context of an experiment or test.