Word: gestalt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rigorous criticism, and for that the men who carry on the work must be able to enjoy the kind of leisure and intellectual fellowship that it is the business of a university to provide. Psychopathology requires contact with all the various attitudes of academic psychology, the sensational, introspective, 'gestalt' and behaviouristic. Just as pathology has come to rest upon normal physiology, so must psychopathology rest upon normal psychology. As there is no course of psychology in the Medical School, it is appropriate that psychology be made a part of the college...
Professor Wolfgang Kohler, who will join the Department of Psychology, is a figure upon whom the eyes of all students of psychology are turned. At the early age of 38, he has done work of the most brilliant sort in experimental psychology and has been the leader of "Gestalt Psychology", a new and radical development in the field...
...mentality of apes in Africa in the years just before the war. He is spending one year in the United States and is at present at Clark University in Worcester. During the first half of next year he will give a seminary in psychology on the subject of "Gestalt Psychology...
Professor Koehler is now serving as a visiting professor of psychology at Clark University for one year. Besides his work among the apes, the professor has done remarkable work in the new school of "Gestalt Psychology" which originated in Germany and has now drawn the attention of psychologists all over the world...
Yesterday before an audience of about 200 he spoke on "Learning as a Configurative Power" and explained the Gestalt theory of associationism, which has been advanced as a solution to educational problems...