PSYC 308 Lecture 9: Psych 308 - Week 9

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 308
• Professor: James Joseph Thompson

Document Summary

Roots in multiple philosophical systems originating in germany and autria, including: Part-whole relations: relational (part-whole) patterning of experience applies to perception, learning, thinking, memory and motivation. Holism irreducible wholes; against reductionistic, atomistic and addictive accounts: characteristic or behaviour of the whole originates in the whole (not its parts, holistic conception of persons as person-in-her/his-environment, including the social environment. Phenomenology: addressing and reflecting experience as it occurs: experience described, not analyzed or reduced to its elements, characterized in meaningful units. Max wertheimer: student of strumpf (u of berlin) and osland kulpe, founder of gestault psychology, which arose from his 1910 experiments published in. 1912: extremely skillful uses of demonstrations (*phi phenomenon, worked at the frankfurt physiological institute, where he was joined by kurt koffka and. Wolfgang kohler left germany as violence against persons of jewish descent. Wolfgang kohler: when stumpf retired, kohler was given his chair, 1927: book, gestault psychology.