Word: gestalt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some years ago psychologists strenuously quarreled over John B. Watson's theories of behaviorism, now largely forgotten. Another uproar sprang from the importation from Germany of "dynamic patterns of behavior" (Gestalt psychology). An endless dispute goes on over the value and significance of I. Q. tests. At present a major trouble focus is the research carried on at Duke University by Joseph Banks Rhine, by which Dr. Rhine claims to have proved the existence of "ESP'' (extrasensory perception). Dr. Rhine-some of whose admirers have compared him to Abraham Lincoln, and others to Sigmund Freud and Charles...
Professor Koehler is the leading exponent of the Gestalt Schol of psychology and is world-famous for his investigation of the intelligence of anthropoids. His work "The Mentality of Apes", is the standard reference for men interested in this subject. He was born in Esthonia in 1887 and received his education at the Universities of Tubingen, Bonn, and Berlin...
Wolfgang Kohler, foremost member of the school of Gestalt psychology, and professor of Philosophy and Director of the Psychological Institute at Berlin, will deliver this year the William James Lectures in Philosophy and Psychology at Harvard. Professor Kohler holds, as successor the famous psychologist, Stumpf, the most important European post in psychology, a position to which he was appointed in 1921 when he was only thirty-four years...
Professor Kohler is now recognized as the leader of the school of Gestalt psychology, which has centered in Berlin for more than a decade. Gestalt psychology began by attacking certain fundamental tenets of traditional psychology, and, although the school has met with much opposition, it is nevertheless true that it has greatly altered the picture of the psychology of today...
...Kohler has frequently been in America and his skill and charm as a lecture in English as in German are well known. In choosing the relation of psychology to other sciences as the topic of the William James Lectures he will be presenting to Harvard audiences his views about Gestalt psychology as opposed to the older conventional psychology...