<P> Titchener's theory began with the question of what each element of the mind is . He concluded from his research that there were three types of mental elements constituting conscious experience: Sensations (elements of perceptions), Images (elements of ideas), and affections (elements of emotions). These elements could be broken down into their respective properties, which he determined were quality, intensity, duration, clearness, and extensity . Both sensations and images contained all of these qualities; however, affections were lacking in both clearness and extensity . And images and affections could be broken down further into just clusters of sensations . Therefore, by following this train of thinking all thoughts were images, which being constructed from elementary sensations meant that all complex reasoning and thought could eventually be broken down into just the sensations which he could get at through introspection . </P> <P> The second issue in Titchener's theory of structuralism was the question of how the mental elements combined and interacted with each other to form conscious experience . His conclusions were largely based on ideas of associationism . In particular, Titchener focuses on the law of contiguity, which is the idea that the thought of something will tend to cause thoughts of things that are usually experienced along with it . </P> <P> Titchener rejected Wundt's notions of apperception and creative synthesis (voluntary actio n), which were the basis of Wundt's voluntarism . Titchener argued that attention was simply a manifestation of the "clearness" property within sensation . </P> <P> Once Titchener identified the elements of mind and their interaction, his theory then asked the question of why the elements interact in the way they do . In particular, Titchener was interested in the relationship between the conscious experience and the physical processes . Titchener believed that physiological processes provide a continuous substratum that give psychological processes a continuity they otherwise would not have . Therefore, the nervous system does not cause conscious experience, but can be used to explain some characteristics of mental events...</P>

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