Why Was Wilhelm Wundt Called Structuralism?
Why Was Wilhelm Wundt Called Structuralism? Because Wundt’s (and later Titchener’s) ideas centered on viewing consciousness as a structure (composed by the building blocks of the elementary sensations into which it could be broken down into), their approach was labeled structuralism. Why is it called structuralism? Instead, Wundt referred to his ideas as voluntarism. 1