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Kurt Koffka
Kurt Koffka , 1886-1941, American psychologist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Berlin, 1908. Before settling permanently in the United States in 1928 as a professor at Smith, he taught at Cornell and at the Univ. of Wisconsin. With Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler he is credited with developing t... Read more
Max Wertheimer
Max Wertheimer , 1880-1943, German psychologist, b. Prague. He studied at the universities of Prague, Berlin, and Würzburg (Ph.D., 1904). His original researches, while he was a professor at Frankfurt and Berlin, placed him in the forefront of contemporary psychology. Wertheimer came to the Uni... Read more
cognitive psychology
cognitive psychology school of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory, and language. It had its foundations in the Gestalt psychology of Max Wertheimer , Wolfgang Köhler , and Kurt Koffka , and in the work of Jean Piaget , who studied intellect... Read more
psychology
psychology science or study of the thought processes and behavior of humans and other animals in their interaction with the environment. Psychologists study processes of sense perception , thinking, learning , cognition, emotions and motivations , personality , abnormal behavior, interactions b... Read more

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Koffka, Kurt
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology Kurt Koffka 1886-1941 German-American experimental psychologist...Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang K ö hler , Kurt Koffka helped establish the theories of Gestalt psychology . It was Koffka who promoted this new psychology in Europe and introduced...
Kurt Koffka
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Kurt Koffka , 1886-1941, American psychologist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Berlin, 1908. Before settling permanently in the United...
Gestalt Psychology
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...hler (1887 – 1967) and Kurt Koffka (1886 – 1941), became his...Gestalt approach (K ö hler 1929; Koffka 1935). A typical experiment in Wertheimer...Theory . New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. Koffka, Kurt. 1935. Principles of Gestalt...
Gibson, James Jerome
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...and 1949 and then went on to teach at Cornell between 1949 and 1972. At Smith, Gibson met Kurt Koffka , a proponent of Gestalt psychology . Koffka's influence shaped Gibson's future research and practice. Gibson served in World War II and...
Köhler, Wolfgang
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...association with Max Wertheimer (1880-1943) when he and Kurt Koffka (1886-1941), both assistants to Friedrich Schumann at the...cognitive functions should be seen as structured wholes. Unlike Koffka and Wertheimer, K ö hler concentrated on animal research...
Gibson, Eleanor J.
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...she excelled in scientific subjects and chose to study psychology, no doubt encouraged by such eminent teachers as Kurt Koffka , Fritz Heider , and James Gibson , who would later become her husband. Exceptionally brilliant, Jack was able to complete...
Maslow, Abraham
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...psychoanalysts Alfred Adler , Erich Fromm , and Karen Horney and Gestalt psychologists Max Wertheimer (1880-1943) and Kurt Koffka (1886-1941). In 1937 Maslow began teaching at the newly opened Brooklyn College. At the urging of anthropologist Ruth...
Gestalt Therapy
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Gestalt psychology of Max Wertheimer (1880 – 1943), Wolfgang K ö hler (1887 – 1967), and Kurt Koffka (1886 – 1941) and the Gestalt therapy of the Perls and their collaborators Ralph Hefferline (1910 – 1974...
psychology
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...of B. F. Skinner since the 1930s. Equally important was the development of Gestalt psychology by German psychologists Kurt Koffka , Wolfgang Köhler , and Max Wertheimer . Gestalt theory contended that the task of psychology was to study human thought...
cognitive psychology
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...memory, and language. It had its foundations in the Gestalt psychology of Max Wertheimer , Wolfgang Köhler , and Kurt Koffka , and in the work of Jean Piaget , who studied intellectual development in children. Cognitive psychologists are interested...

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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1908-1961)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...conception of the world and knowledge, as it was represented in experimental psychology by Wolfgang K ö hler and Kurt Koffka, in neurology by Kurt Goldstein, and in philosophy by Max Scheler and Georges Pollitzer. Freud's work also played a role...

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New developments in social interdependence theory.(SOCIAL INTERDEPENDENCE THEORY)
Magazine article from: Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs; 11/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...conceptualized by Morton Deutsch (1949a). Kurt Koffka The historical roots of social interdependence...the Gestalt school of psychology, Kurt Koffka (1935), proposed that, similar to...the principles of Gestalt psychology and Koffka's notion, Kurt Lewin (1935, 1948...
Developmentalism
Magazine article from: Educational Research Quarterly; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Helmholtz, 1962, 1924, 18961873, 1852, 1866a, 1866b; Koffka, 1935, 1924; KOhler, 1920, 1940, 1947, 1969; Lewin...Helmholtz,1962,1924,1896,1873,1852,1866a,1866b; Koffka,1935,1924; Kohler,1920,1940,1947,1969; Lewin...
Oscillatory priming and form complexity
Magazine article from: Perception and Psychophysics; 2/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...regarding perceptual organization. The Gestalt psychologists (Koffka, 1922; Khler, 1947; Wertheimer, 1912) proposed that perceptual...percept will be as "good" as the prevailing conditions allow. Koffka (1935) proposed that the law of Prgnanz can be identified...
NEWS IN BRIEF: Freshfields initiates corporate shake-up.(Brief article)
Magazine article from: The Lawyer; 10/12/2009; 392 words ; ...infrastructure and transport sector group (ITG) has been handed to Hamburg-based partner Nils Koffka. He will work alongside joint head of sector Nick Bliss. Koffka was previously joint head of the global private equity group alongside London-based...
Laws of seeing.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Journal of Phenomenological Psychology; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...American mind are Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, and Kurt Koffka. Other names that may follow this trinity are Kurt Lewin...with those following in the steps of Wertheimer, Kohler, and Koffka. In his "Introduction to the English Translation" of the...
Memory and assimilation to context in delayed matching-to-sample
Magazine article from: Psychology Science; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...It is a law of immediate perception and disappears as the experiment becomes a memory test" (p. 462). In the same sense Koffka (1935) characterized a subjective stimulus scale as an internal frame of reference that functions as the background against...
Grouping and gambling: A Gestalt approach to understanding the gambler's fallacy
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...This tendency to organize individual elements of experience into larger scale units follows from Gestalt principles (e.g., Koffka, 1935; Wertheimer, 1923), and the effects of grouping are commonly observed in a wide variety of perceptual and memory...
OBITUARY: Edwin B. Giventer (1917-2003)
Magazine article from: Journal of Research in Character Education; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...student at New York University and Columbia University, Professor Giventer studied with Gestalt theorists Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, George Hartmann, and Goodwin Watson. At Brooklyn College of the City of New York, where he taught for nearly 45 years...
On aesthetics and its origins: some psychobiological and evolutionary considerations.
Magazine article from: Social Research; 3/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...should conform rather closely to the Gestalt principles of perception, for example, simplicity, symmetry, good continuation (Koffka, 1935; Kohler, 1947). Application of these principles to works of art has distinguished Arnheim's extensive contributions...
Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/18/1994; 700+ words ; ...engineer and inventor, 1858; Arthur Neville Chamberlain, statesman, 1869; Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer, 1882; Kurt Koffka, psychologist, 1886; Wilfred Owen, poet, 1893; Betty Compson (Eleanor Luicime Compson), actress, 1897; Lavrenti Pavlovich...