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Wolfgang Köhler , 1887-1967, American psychologist, b. Estonia, Ph.D. Univ. of Berlin, 1909. From 1913 to 1920 he was director of a research station on Tenerife, Canary Islands. Later he served as both professor of psychology and director of the Psychology Institute, Berlin. He came to the United States in 1934, where he became professor of psychology at Swarthmore College. Köhler is best known for his experiments with problem-solving in apes at Tenerife and the influence of his writings in the founding of the school of Gestalt psychology. His writings include Gestalt Psychology (rev. ed. 1947) and The Mentality of Apes (rev. ed. 1948).
Bibliography: See his selected papers, ed. by M. Henle (1971).
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Wolfgang Köhler
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Wolfgang Köhler , 1887-1967, American psychologist, b. Estonia, Ph.D. Univ...where he became professor of psychology at Swarthmore College. Köhler is best known for his experiments with problem-solving in apes... |
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...in psychology by German theorists Max Wertheimer , Wolfgang Köhler , and Kurt Koffka as a protest against the prevailing...analogous to field physics. Bibliography: See W. Köhler, The Task of Gestalt Psychology (1969); Max W... |
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...motion) gave rise to 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... |
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...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 and behavior... |
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...unlearned (see behavior therapy ). Cognitive Learning A third approach to learning is known as cognitive learning. Wolfgang Köhler showed that a protracted process of trial-and-error may be replaced by a sudden understanding that grasps... |
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