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Intelligenzprüfungen an Menschenaffen (literally translated: Intelligence tests on great apes) is a book by Wolfgang Köhler published in 1921. [1] The English version called "The Mentality of Apes", translated by Ella Winter, was published in 1925. [2] With the book Köhler showed that chimpanzees could solve problems by insight. [1]
Wolfgang Köhler (21 January 1887 – 11 June 1967) was a German psychologist and phenomenologist who, like Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka, contributed to the creation of Gestalt psychology. During the Nazi regime in Germany , he protested against the dismissal of Jewish professors from universities, as well as the requirement that professors ...
The two men who served as Wertheimer's subjects in the phi experiments were Köhler and Koffka. Köhler was an expert in physical acoustics, having studied under physicist Max Planck, but had taken his degree in psychology under Carl Stumpf. Koffka was also a student of Stumpf's, having studied movement phenomena and psychological aspects of ...
German American psychologist Wolfgang Köhler referred to Uznadze's experiment in a 1929 book [7] which showed two forms and asked readers which shape was called "takete" and which was called "maluma". Although he does not say so outright, Köhler implies that there is a strong preference to pair the jagged shape with "takete" and the rounded ...
Wolfgang Köhler Germany: 21 January 1887: 11 June 1967: Psychologist The Mentality of Apes, Gestalt Psychology: Josefina Lerena Acevedo de Blixen Uruguay: 13 February 1889: 12 November 1967: Writer, journalist Reyles: Douglas MacLean United States: 10 January 1890: 9 July 1967: actor, writer Mama Loves Papa: René Magritte Belgium: 21 November ...
In Berlin he was a student of Wolfgang Köhler and Kurt Lewin, (both of them proponents of Gestalt psychology) and also of Hans Rupp, professor for applied psychology at the institute of psychology. [2] From 1926 to 1941 he was an assistant at the Institute J.J. Rousseau of Geneva University.
Sultan, one of the brightest of the early chimpanzees used for psychological research, was tested by Gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Köhler. Sultan is particularly recognized for his insight in solving numerous problems, including stacking or manipulating boxes to reach a reward and use of two sticks as a unit to rake food to a reachable distance.
Stumpf was the chair of the institute for 26 years. He was succeeded by Wolfgang Köhler. [4] Stumpf influenced his pupils [6] such as Wertheimer, Koffka, Köhler, and Kurt Lewin, and these contributed to the school's development. [7] Lewin, for instance, developed a set of models and ideas linked to change management theory and practice. [8]