At the close of the nineteenth century, Gerhard is excited to find that he has been accepted for training in the psychology laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt. It is likely that Gerhard will be trained to
A) analyze how to break down his sensations into their most basic elements.
B) determine the function or purpose of a particular human behavior.
C) listen intently while individuals tell him of their depression or nervousness.
D) carefully feel the bumps on a person's head in order to determine his or her character traits.
Answer: A
Rationale: Wundt believed that basic sensations are the "atoms" more complicated experiences, an idea that later became known as structuralism. Structuralism was an attempt to analyze conscious experience by breaking it down into basic elements, and to understand how these elements work together. This is in contrast to functionalism, which attempted to determine the function or purpose of behaviors.
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