Titchener expanded on Wundt's original ideas, calling his new view structuralism because the focus of the study was the structure of the mind. He believed that every experience could be broken down into its individual emotions and sensations (Brennan, 2002). Although Titchener agreed with Wundt that consciousness, the state of awareness of external events, could be broken down into its basic elements, Titchener also believed that objective introspection could be used on both thoughts and physical sensations. For example, Titchener could have asked his students to introspect about things that are blue instead of actually giving them a blue object and asking for reactions to it. 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 cool and restful, blue is calm. . .” and so