AP Psychology help?

Question

Describe structuralism and its impact on the subsequent development of psychology.

Answer 1

Structuralism tries to break down the basic elements of experience. Wundt entered the world considered subjective by science and may have opened up subjectivity as a sort of sixth sense as he cataloged subjective experiences. Science is still trying to limit itself to five senses, but is becoming increasingly aware that we have an inner sense of self and of life, because we are life, so that the observer is part of the experiment and has to be studied and subjective experience has to be studied, you know? Left brain, for instance, would say we need to be objective and all the reasons why, but in fact the right hemisphere is experiencing life inside itself and the body and would not omit it's information as irrelevant or necessarily subjective, as it is able to observe itself and we can observe it at work. Science has come within. Nature always was observed here, within, where we are. We are the observer of the exterior world and our interior world and that view is actually more objective then trying to ignore it or pretending we have ignored it. Besides the subconscious is much more objective then scientists, although I can imagine an exception. Science has turned a corner, never to go back. It has been redefined as science being proper in studying anything. Well, almost. It's getting there. Some scientists have been there for some time, actually. And so have many persons, from the begining of time. They used common sense, the inner sense that something is wrong, a mismatch in the comparison by the brain of millions of images looking for a mismatch, which gives a negative feeling or thought.
The problem now is in an over reaction in the other direction. A dual view is more helpful. Even if ultimately the structure of the brain is variable, it may have an overall necessary structure and general structures for times and peoples in history. That's why it is used in so many disciplines. An ultimate theory has not been found, but like the unified field theory or theory of everything sought in physics, it probably exists. Even so, that won't stop infinite combinations as knowledge, like life and surfing, isn't just about getting to the beach, but about the ride and not wipping out, among other things along the way. Nothing is something else. Everything only relates and that is a basic structure and everything is it's elements. Psychology may be better defined as looking at everything from the viepoint of psychology rather than just looking a certain things only. Everything is the elements, the structure is psychology. You can see the rabbit or the goose, but not usually both at the same time. Some people say they can. One in each hemisphere. I suspect structuralism and destructuralism, when they invent it, can both co-exist and arguing about who is right, like the blame game, is a waste of time.