Structuralism in Psychology
INTRODUCTION The school of structuralist psychology began in the late 19 century, shortly after psychology separated from philosophy as a distinct scientific discipline. Structuralism is an intellectual movement which began in France in the 1950’s and is seen in the works of anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss. One of the most basic ideas of structuralism is the belief that things cannot be understood in isolation, they have to be seen in the larger structures they are part of. So structuralism seeks the inter relationships through which meaning is produced. Structuralism, in psychology, a systematic movement founded in Germany by Wilhelm Wundt and mainly identified with Edward B. Titchener . Structuralism is "Study of text as a whole and the kinds of interrelationships/contrasts that the system builds into it to make it meaningful”. Contrasts are often times highlighted by calling attention to their basic oppositional/binary structure. structural...