PSYC 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Wolfgang Köhler, Kurt Lewin, Subjective Constancy
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Max weitherheimer: u(cid:374)i(cid:448)e(cid:396)sit(cid:455) of be(cid:396)li(cid:374) (cid:894)(cid:1005)9(cid:1006)(cid:1004)"s(cid:895, 1921: founded the journal psychological research, became associated with the new school for social research in new york city, influenced maslow founder. Phi phenomenon the illusion that two stationary flashing lights are moving from one place to another. Kurt koffta: associated with wertheimer and k hler at the university of frankfurt, introduced the word perception, which later became strongly associated with the gestalt school of thought. More concerned with cognitive processes (i. e. problems of thinking, learning) and other aspects of conscious experience. Wolfgang kohler: most prolific promoter of the gestalt movement, books became the standard works of gestalt psychology, suggested that gestalt theory was a general law of nature that should be extended to all the sciences. Spent seven years studying the behavior of non-human primates. Force fields in the brain transform incoming sensory data. The patterns of brain activity and the patterns of conscious experience are structurally equivalent.
