• Question: What are the similarities between cognitive psychology and structuralism psychology?

    Asked by anon-234553 to Phill, Liam, Kohinoor, Karolina, Jack, Debbie on 11 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Debbie Kinsey

      Debbie Kinsey answered on 11 Nov 2019:

      As far as I understand it, both structuralism and cognitive psychology are about trying to understand “mental processes” – how we think and how thinking works.
      Structuralism was one of the very first ways of thinking about psychology, and it tried to understand how the mind works by researchers analysing their own thoughts (which they called “introspection”). Cognitive psychology is more modern and uses a lot of different research methods to understand mental processes.
      Structuralism isn’t popular anymore, and other kinds of psychology like cognitive psychology have replaced it.

    • Photo: Liam Wignall

      Liam Wignall answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      These aren’t my areas of psychology sadly! Debbie’s answer about covers it though.

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