Structuralism:
A)promoted the use of nonhuman animals to study brain functions.
B)ended when Descartes demonstrated that the brain consisted of multiple structures, not one.
C)was based on the idea that even our most complex conscious experiences could be broken down into basic elemental structures of sensations and feelings.
D)contended that basic human thoughts are contained in common genetic structures that are passed from generation to generation.

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Structuralism was a school of psychology that believed that complex conscious experiences could be analyzed into basic elemental structures of sensations and feelings. This approach was concerned with identifying the components of conscious experience and their arrangement in complex mental structures. Structuralists searched for the "atoms" of the mind, similar to how chemists broke down matter into its basic elements.