In America, Wilhelm Wundt's ideas were popularized by one of his students, _______________, who gave Wundt's approach the name "structuralism."
A) Sigmund Freud
B) John Watson
C) William James
D) Edward Titchener
Answer: D
Rationale: Wundt's ideas made their way to the U.S. through students who worked with him. One student, Edward Titchener, adopted the same method of introspection used by Wundt to devise an organized map of the structure of human consciousness. He called the approach structuralism.
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