Titchener expanded on Wundt's original ideas, calling his new view structuralism because the focus of study was the structure of the mind. He believed that every experience could be broken down into individual emotions and sensations (Brennan, 2002). Although Titchener agreed with Wundt that consciousness, the state of awareness of external events, can be broken down into its basic elements, Titchener also believed that objective introspection could be used on thoughts as well than on physical sensations. For example, Titchener could have asked his students to introspect on blue objects rather than giving them a blue object and asking them for their reactions. Such an exercise might have led to something like this: “What is blue? There are blue things, like the sky or a bird's feathers. Blue is fresh and relaxing, blue is calm. . .” and so