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Gestalt psychology, ... With the help of American psychologist Robert Ogden, ... The Gestaltists were the first psychologists to systematically study perceptual ...
Gestalt psychology. Kurt Koffka (March 12, 1886 – November 22, 1941) was a German psychologist and professor. He was born and educated in Berlin, Germany; he died in Northampton, Massachusetts, from coronary thrombosis. [1][2] He was influenced by his maternal uncle, a biologist, to pursue science. [1] He had many interests including visual ...
Abraham S. Luchins. Abraham S. Luchins (March 8, 1914 – December 27, 2005) was an American Gestalt psychologist and a pioneer of group psychotherapy. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and died in New York.
Psychologist. Spouse. Nellie Dorsey. Children. 1 son, 2 daughters. Robert Morris Ogden (1877–1959) was an American psychologist and academic. He served as the dean of the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences from 1923 to 1945. He was the first proponent of Gestalt psychology in the United States.
Max Wertheimer (April 15, 1880 – October 12, 1943) was a psychologist who was one of the three founders of Gestalt psychology, along with Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler. He is known for his book, Productive Thinking, and for conceiving the phi phenomenon as part of his work in Gestalt psychology. Wertheimer became interested in psychology ...
Max Wertheimer. Notable students. Stanley Milgram. Solomon Eliot Asch (September 14, 1907 – February 20, 1996) was a Polish - American Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology. He created seminal pieces of work in impression formation, prestige suggestion, conformity, and many other topics.
Mary Henle (July 14, 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio ; † November 17, 2007 in Haverford, Pennsylvania) was an American psychologist who's known most notably for her contributions to Gestalt Psychology and for her involvement in the American Psychological Association. Henle also taught at the New School of Social Research in New York; she was involved ...
James J. Gibson. James Jerome Gibson (/ ˈɡɪbsən /; January 27, 1904 – December 11, 1979) was an American psychologist and is considered to be one of the most important contributors to the field of visual perception. Gibson challenged the idea that the nervous system actively constructs conscious visual perception, and instead promoted ...