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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...
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, 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...
Max Wertheimer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the influential school of Gestalt psychology. His early experiments, in collaboration with Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Koffka , introduced a new approach (macroscopic as opposed to microscopic) to the study of psychological problems. In the latter...
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...
Psychology
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science ...Sigmund Freud. At about the same time behaviorism arose, German psychologists Max Wertheimer (1880 – 1943), Kurt Koffka (1886 – 1941), and Wolfgang K ö hler (1887 – 1967) founded Gestalt psychology (German for...
Köhler, Wolfgang
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Köhler, Wolfgang (1887–1967) US psychologist, b. Estonia. With Kurt Koffka and Max Wertheimer, he was a key figure in Gestalt psychology . His work on animal learning and problem solving is summarized in The Mentality of Apes (1917).
holism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...parts whilst remaining safely within materialist bounds. In academic psychology the Gestalt theorists, Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, and Wolfgang Köhler, claimed that not atomistic sensations but structured wholes are the primary units of mental...

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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...
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...
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...
The properties of one: facial memory and the isolation effect.
Magazine article from: The Journal of General Psychology; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...Restorff (Wallace, 1965) or isolation (von Restorff, 1933: Koffka, 1935) effect. Some researchers have followed Nelson (1979...effect. In her original research, von Restorff (1933; see Koffka, 1935) explained the isolation effect by relating it to Gestalt...
The properties of one: single distinctive stimuli and their effects.
Magazine article from: The Journal of General Psychology; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...1965) or isolation effect (von Restorff, 1933, cited in Koffka, 1935) and has been demonstrated in a wide number of stimulus realms, including von Restorff's (1933, cited in Koffka, 1935) original lists of written nonsense syllables, auditory...
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...
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...
A cross-cultural study of colour grouping: evidence for weak linguistic relativity.
Magazine article from: British Journal of Psychology; 8/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; Why do we see the world the way we do (Koffka, 1935)? Perhaps the 'orthodox' answer to Koffka's question for most of this century is that our minds impose structure on sensations, and thus appearances are the result of mental construction...
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...
Cognitive versus stimulus-response theories of learning
Magazine article from: Learning & Behavior; 8/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...patterns representative of the relationships in the environment." For the most part, within these theories, such as those of Koffka (1935), Kohler (1940), Lewin (1936), andTolman (1932), learning was construed as part of a larger problem of perceptual...