PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Phi Phenomenon, Max Wertheimer, Immanuel Kant
12 Apr 2017
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Ex: melody: william james postulated a stream of consciousness in contrast to the mind being composed of isolated mental elements. The stream should be the focus of psychological inquiry; any attempt to break it up for more detailed analysis must be avoided: act psychology proposed by brentano and stumpf. Focused on the acts of perceiving, sensing, or problem solving. The act psychologists and the gestaltists were both phenomenologists. All three founders of gestalt psychology studied under. Stumpf: k hler was well versed in physics and gestalt psychology represented an effort to model psychology after field theory instead of newtonian physics. Gestalt psychology: two research assistants at the time were kurt koffka and wolfgang. Together these three individuals are considered the cofounders of gestalt psychology. Kurt koffka: wrote several books and articles regarding gestalt psychology, his article entitled, perception: an introduction to gestalt-theorie, was believed to provide a misrepresentation that gestaltists were only interested in perception.
