Essentials of Understanding Psychology
Essentials of Understanding Psychology
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781259531804
Author: Robert S Feldman Dean College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 2, Problem 1E
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Introduction: The scientific study of behavior and mental process that includes conscious and unconscious phenomenon with thoughts and feelings is known as psychology. Psychological studies are mainly employed to improve mental disorder, self-help, and performance. It involves mainly for examining the mind of an individual and identifying the actions that influence an individual.

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Correct answer: Wundt described psychology as the study of conscious experience, a perspective he called structuralism.

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German psychologist, Wilhelm Wundt is the one who isolated the psychology as the stream that is apart from biology and philosophy. He is known as “Father of experimental psychology”. He proposed the theory of structuralism, which is incorporated with self-examination. The theory of structuralism explains the elements of consciousness that mainly focus on the mental components of perception, consciousness, thinking, mental states and activities, and emotion.

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