Contrast and compare Titchener’s and Wundt’s approaches to psychology.
Titchener developed a new field within psychology called Structuralism. Wundt emphasized on the organization of the mental elements. He was interested to study the synthesis of these processes to higher order mental processes. In Wundt’s opinion, mind had the power to arrange metal elements. This view often contrasted with what the British empiricists and associationists thought.
Titchener mainly studied the contents or mental elements, and their mechanical attachment through the process of association. Titchener did not agree to Wundt’s view on apperception.
According to Titchener, the characteristic task in psychology was to uncover the nature of basic conscious experiences. It was to analyze consciousness, broken into its constituent parts and thus, deduce its structure.